strange keyboard behavior
PingOut
currently set as US keyboard(international), but I found that in order for
me to use the " or ' keys, I would have to press the same key twice in order
to get the character. Anyway to go round that, or did I set my keyboard
wrongly.
Peter T. Breuer
No, you have to press " followed by space. They're for making accents.
You might want to set the NoDeadKeys option in the config file.
Peter
Silvan
> PingOut <pin...@removethis.ihug.com.au> wrote:
>> I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on my Thinkpad 600E, PII 300. My keyboard is
>> currently set as US keyboard(international), but I found that in order
>> for me to use the " or ' keys, I would have to press the same key twice
>> in order to get the character. Anyway to go round that, or did I set my
>> keyboard
>
> No, you have to press " followed by space. They're for making accents.
Or press them twice.
> You might want to set the NoDeadKeys option in the config file.
Or switch to the regular, non-international US layout.
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Peter T. Breuer
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>> PingOut <pin...@removethis.ihug.com.au> wrote:
>>> I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on my Thinkpad 600E, PII 300. My keyboard is
>>> currently set as US keyboard(international), but I found that in order
>>> for me to use the " or ' keys, I would have to press the same key twice
>>> in order to get the character. Anyway to go round that, or did I set my
>>> keyboard
>>
>> No, you have to press " followed by space. They're for making accents.
> Or press them twice.
It's merely an accident that quotes can't be accented in his language
:-)
>> You might want to set the NoDeadKeys option in the config file.
> Or switch to the regular, non-international US layout.
Oxymoron? I suppose it depends where you are standing when you say
that! Maybe the international version's for californians?
Peter
Silvan
> It's merely an accident that quotes can't be accented in his language
> :-)
It works though. The US International layout is basically stock US, except
that ' " ^ and I think : are dead keys. There are a lot of combinations
that don't work.
My kicker died a little while back, and re-spawned itself without the system
tray. My language switcher is currently unavailable, so I'm not going to
go play with it.
Anyway, I find the layout pretty useless. It's irritating, yet it doesn't
provide _all_ the special symbols needed for Spanish or French, so there's
no point in using it IMHO. I use the Spanish layout for that, and the
normal, red, white and blue American layout for daily consumption.
I rather doubt our Australian friend's keyboard has anything on the keycaps
that would confuse him if he used the normal layout. (Besides, unlike
_some_ people, most people never look at their keycaps anyway. :P )
>>> You might want to set the NoDeadKeys option in the config file.
>
>> Or switch to the regular, non-international US layout.
>
> Oxymoron? I suppose it depends where you are standing when you say
> that! Maybe the international version's for californians?
I have no idea what it's for. I suppose it's intended to be used by people
who are used to the US layout, but who want to be able to put a few types
of accents onto a few vowels. There's upside down punctuation, no C
cedille, no enyay. I don't _think_ so anyway. It may be that ~N produces
an enyay, in which case it would be just as annoying to use in the Unix
world as one of the other national layouts.