Questions tagged [dead-keys]
Dead keys allows the user to easily enter characters like è õ ï ... etcetera from the keyboard.
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When typing ^ i have to type twice to get that symbol in Xfce
I use Debian testing with XFCE as desktop environment.
I have a german keyboard and sometimes use ^ (circumflex). When I hit that key once, the symbol is shown with an underscore. I have to hit it ...
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How to disable dead keys
I have a Debian 11 box running the Cinnamon DE. My keyboard layout is, per localectl status:
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
VC Keymap: uk
X11 Layout: gb
X11 Model: pc105
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Cannot add accent marks on character, as accent marks immidiately appear before the next key press
In short, I am trying to type the acute e (é) character.
For some reason, on my office computer (Linux Mint Cinnamon), I cannot write the character as I am used to.
The way I would normally do it, is ...
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How to make Dead Keys(Compose) Work with Window Managers?
My Window Manager/Desktop Environment has some applications where the dead keys (e.g.`, ~, ö) are not working by default, when I press then, they sometimes doesn't show at all on key press, sometimes ...
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xorg keyboard config not working (us altgr-intl no deadkeys)
I'm trying to get my keyboard to use the us layout with variation altr-intl and no deadkeys.
Somehow my xorg-keyboard-config does not take effect. I looked up the config here arch-wiki but there seems ...
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Where are the definitions for dead key combinations?
I noticed that on Ubuntu 20.04, some dead key combinations act differently than expected. For instance, dead acute followed by c produces ç, not ć as one might expect.
I have found the keyboard layout ...
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Enable dead key diacritic indicator
I recently tried Debian Buster with KDE Plasma 5 and I noticed a cool feature which I'd like to have on my current distribution.
I use a US international keyboard with dead keys layout and, with ...
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Problem with dead-key in linux (debian + KDE)
I am trying to have a clean configuration for my keyboards and layout. I want to be able to switch between FR layout and US international layout with dead keys. When I switch using the GUI it works ...
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What happens when type dead key "acute accent" then "o" to produce "ó"?
I'm on Belgian keyboard (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be) and when I type AltGrù it produces the dead key "acute accent", it waits for another key, o for example, to produce ó.
How can I change which ...
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Does Linux Mint have Windows-like dead keys?
I'm from the Netherlands, using Windows' Dutch US-International keyboard layout, where a fair few characters use dead keys (éèëê, times five for every vowel). On Windows, typing an apostrophe with a ...
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Typing dead key after base letter
The US International keyboard allows to add diacritics by means of dead keys.
Specifically:
`a maps to à and
'a maps to á.
In X, using the international or the standard US keyboard, I would like ...
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Dead keys suddenly stopped working in GTK applications
I use several keyboards layouts on a regular basis. Two of which make use of dead keys for French language.
$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
XKBLAYOUT=us,fr,fr
XKBVARIANT=dvp,bepo,latin9
BACKSPACE=guess
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Create own dead_key
I am currently working to create a specific greek keyboard layout adapted to French Swiss Keyboard,
I create a keyboard layout to be put to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/(
https://github.com/grecromand/...
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Make dead keys insert both characters if the combination is not recognized [duplicate]
There are ways to configure dead keys in Linux to mimic the behavior they have in Windows ?
This document describe how it works in Windows:US-Int'l Keyboard Layout to Type Accented Characters
The ...
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GTK_IM_MODULE=xim breaks dead keys in GTK and QT applications
I'm using XIM to have the compose key take into account my ~/.XCompose file (it's the only input method that takes it into account, all the others I tried use hard-coded tables). However, it is ...
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