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Bes

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Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 79

Accents over letters?

Hi

How can I get accents over letters like e and a working using Alt+Gr like Windows? I can see them ok, but I can't type them.

If possible, I would also like to find a way to get the N with a tilde (~) over the top, as I write in Spanish to the GF sometimes and it looks wierd not using it

Cheers

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: Accents over letters?

To get the accent on Cybercafé I hold down "Alt Gr" and tap ";" then release and tap "e"

e2a: hold "Alt Gr" and tap "]", release and tap "N"

Last edited by vacant (2008-01-28 19:24:22)

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Accents over letters?

You might want to take a look at your keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, namely options like

Option "XkbLayout" "en"
Option "XkbVariant" "altgr-intl"

The layouts you can use are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/. For variants, have a look at (e.g.) /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us, and at alternatives. The one I use (altgr-intl) allows me to write any accent I need, most of them with AltGr+key. (AltGr+n gives ñ, AltGr+e gives é, AltGr+r gives ë, etc..)

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Accents over letters?

I'm using a German keyboard layout, but there's the cool thing called "dead keys".

If I want to write an "enje", I hit first '~' (AltGr + '+' in my case) and then 'n' to produce the 'ñ'. The same works for ã as e.g. in alemão as well.

Putting accents is as easy as `(accent grave)/ ' (accent aigu)/ ^(accent circonflexe) and then the letter, e.g. Cádiz, città or fôret. In the case of the '¸' it's AltGr + (accent aigu) and then the letter, e.g. 'ç'.

Something like this should exist on an American layout as well, if I'm not mistaken.

Last edited by wuischke (2008-01-28 20:11:38)

Bes

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Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 79

Re: Accents over letters?

Sorry I'm using a UK layout (Being from the UK & everything )

But thanks for the tips- will have a look now

Last edited by Bes (2008-01-28 20:30:52)

Fl4ppie

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 2

Re: Accents over letters?

My favorite method is using the compose key.
I've remapped the menu key( it's the button with the little menu on it between the right alt and ctrl on my keyboard) to compose.

#/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
 
    Option         "XkbOptions" "compose:menu,ctrl:nocaps" 
EndSection

So when you hold your new compose key and press " ' " and " e " you get " é "
Hope that works for you

Last edited by Fl4ppie (2008-01-31 09:44:15)

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Accents over letters?

If you use KDE you can set the compose key in Control Center (kcontrol)

Control Center --> Reginal & Accessibility --> xkbOptions tab --> Compose Key Position.

It's the same thing as what Fl4ppie did above but without editing the xorg.conf.

watsonalgas

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Registered: 2007-01-15

Posts: 92

Re: Accents over letters?

My favorite method is using the compose key.
I've remapped the menu key( it's the button with the little menu on it between the right alt and ctrl on my keyboard) to compose.

#/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
 
    Option         "XkbOptions" "compose:menu,ctrl:nocaps" 
EndSection

So when you hold your new compose key and press " ' " and " e " you get " é "
Hope that works for you

This is cool.  How do you get the umlauts?