On Wednesday 10 August 2005 08:51 pm, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Would somebody please point out how to set up a polish keyboard in > KDE? I tried configuring the keyboard layout in control center, > selected the polish keyboard layout, but cannot find where all the > language-specific characters are. In fact, it seems that the US layout > is still being used. It would help to have some application that > shows where each character is on the keyboard. Macs have something > where you shown a keyboard layout and the keys change colors, > depending on which one you press, as well as showing the modified keys > after shift, ctrl, alt. Anyone know an equivalent of that? > Unless I'm way off base here (and I certainly could be), Polish uses an accented Latin alphabet, so the standard X Compose stuff would work. Go into KControl -> Regional & Accessibility, Keyboard Layout, select the Xkb Options tab, and check one of the options under Compose Key in the big list-o-checkboxes. I use Right Alt. Then you can compose accented characters with key combos, e.g.:
compose+slash, l = ł compose+single-quote, o = ó compose+semicolon, e = ę ...and so on. I have this handy shellscript that lets me paste a letter from KCharSelect, and it will show the key combo to enter it: #!/bin/sh dir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale dir="$dir/`sed -n "s#\([^/]*\)/.*:.*$LANG#\1#p" \ < $dir/locale.dir`" grep -F $1 $dir/Compose just run it and pass it a single character as an argument, e.g.: $ ./compose.sh é <dead_acute> <e> : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE <Multi_key> <acute> <e> : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE <Multi_key> <apostrophe> <e> : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE <combining_acute> <e> : "é" eacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE $ Those are the possible combos for entering that character - you're interested in the Multi_key sequences. Hope this helps.
