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Hi all,
I use a 2013 Macbook Air with a QWERTY international keyboard. It runs Arch w/ KDE, with the English (US) keyboard layout, English (Macintosh) variant. Everything seems to work well except that I can't type diacritics letters because dead keys don't work. On OSX, I can type ' followed by e, to get é. Any idea about how I can get the same behavior on Arch?
Thanks a lot,
Aurel.
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I'm not a KDE user, but on Gnome you do it by setting a compose key, and then to type á, for example I had to type alt+; then a.
It looks like KDE has something similar, though I can't test it myself.
https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey
Wikipedia has a chart with some common compose key combinations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
If you want to get really crazy, you can also type unicode characters. ∃ for example is done by doing ctrl+shift+u and then 2203. Obviously you can't be expected to know what all the unicode characters are, but it is good to know that its there if you need it.
Last edited by Knasher (2015-04-30 16:35:10)
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