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efossvold

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From: Kamloops, Canada

Registered: 2006-07-23

Posts: 59

dead keys don't display

I'm using norwegian keyboard layout for my keyboard. All the keys and everything works perfectly in text modus. However, in KDE the dead keys such as tilde (~) doesn't display in any application.

efossvold

Member

From: Kamloops, Canada

Registered: 2006-07-23

Posts: 59

Re: dead keys don't display

I solved it. I'm using norwegian keyboard so I changed the xorg.conf:
"XkbLayout" "no"
to:
"XkbLayout" "no-latin1"

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: dead keys don't display

Hm, as i did that the norwegian characters disappered..

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efossvold

Member

From: Kamloops, Canada

Registered: 2006-07-23

Posts: 59

Re: dead keys don't display

Hmm, it's been a while since I did all that, but looking at my xorg.conf now, I don't have any value to XbdLayout. However, this is how I've got it all setup now, you might wana try it:
/etc/rc.colnf:
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Oslo"
KEYMAP="no-latin1-std"
CONSOLEFONT="ter-112n"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-1"
USECOLOR="yes"

The keymap I'm using is a custom one, use whatever you find in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty (no-latin1 for instance).

Uncomment your locale in /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen, then check your available locales with locale -a. This is what I get:
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8
nb_NO.utf8

In KDE Control Center I set the Country/Region to Norway.

Hope this helps you.