On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 18:10:21 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 17:42:07 Pavel Volkov wrote: > > On Saturday 08 March 2014 15:50:27 Mick wrote: > > > I can't understand why a PC that uses the KDE desktop always sticks an > > > > > > accented capital "A" in front of the pound sign. It looks like this: > > > £ > > > > I don't have this problem in KDE (though I'm not using UK layout to type > > it). I use the additional X.Org layout called "typo" and type the pound > > sign with AltGr+F. > > > > What tool do you use to switch keyboard layouts and what are those > > layouts? > > This machine only has UK qwerty keyboard and UK locale. I don't switch > into any other layouts. > > I've just changed the default country in the KDE locale GUI from UK to 'No > Country' and will restart the desktop as soon as I can kick a Luser off it, > to see if it works.
The user logged out of KDE and back in and the darn thing still shows up. :-/
Any ideas what might be causing this? There is no problem with typing the US
dollar character key (Shift+4), but there is when pressing the GBP character
(Shift+3).
This is what xev shows when pressing and releasing Shift plus the key:
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KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
root 0x15b, subw 0x4a00002, time 125124784, (30,32), root:(3052,475),
state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
root 0x15b, subw 0x4a00002, time 125128642, (30,32), root:(3052,475),
state 0x11, keycode 12 (keysym 0xa3, sterling), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a3) "£"
XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a3) "£"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
root 0x15b, subw 0x4a00002, time 125128772, (30,32), root:(3052,475),
state 0x11, keycode 12 (keysym 0xa3, sterling), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c2 a3) "£"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
root 0x15b, subw 0x4a00002, time 125128977, (30,32), root:(3052,475),
state 0x11, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
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Regards,
Mick
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