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farkaslory

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Registered: 2013-08-28

Posts: 11

deadkey problems

I am from Hungary. In hungary there are vowels with acute like áéúí, vowles with umlaut like üö and vowels with double acute like űő. I would like to use deadkeys in the us layout (it is quite hard to code in hungarian layout + I have english keyboard)on KDE.

The deadkeys works partially as if i press compose+'(apostrophe) then i get óá etc. But for compose+"(quotedbl) i didn't get űő (u and o with double acute as I should) but üö (u and o with umlaut or diaeresis) and moreover, i did not get üö for compose+:(colon).

I wanted to rewrite the us symbols file(to get üö for compse+:(colon) and get űő for compose+"(quotedbl)), but I have lost. I do not understand how can even deadkey work as  I use the default us (without any deadkey indicated). What sections included in the "default" us map? Here is my

#setxkbmap -query -print

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete+ledscroll(group_lock)"        };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+hu(102_qwerty_dot_nodead):2+inet(evdev)+group(lswitch)+group(alt_shift_toggle)+compose(lwin)"    };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"     };
};
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us,hu
variant:    ,102_qwerty_dot_nodead
options:    grp:lswitch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,compose:lwin,grp_led:scroll

As you see there is no option in "us" for deadkey, but it works (partially at least) if I load the compose(lwin) file. However, If i rewrite the file, then nothing happens (I think there is a section that overwrites my modification).

Can anyone help?