Michael Adams said onto me:  
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 |On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:52, Gerald Waugh wrote:
 |> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 08:17 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
 |> > Michael Adams wrote:
 |> > > When typing away in Kmail or KWrite some key strokes take about a full
 |> > > second to be actioned. Specifically punctuation keys like ["] and ['].
 |> > > I am running KDE on a P3 500. Only some of the punctuation keys are
 |> > > like this. Full stops, commas and even the square brackets i just used
 |> > > are fine. If i am tapping at normal speed (i am not a touch typist) the
 |> > > letter after gets missed as well. Anybody else had this one?
 |> > >
 |> > > It's a bit of a pain because i have to remember to slow for those keys.
 |> > > Then all of a sudden i have three of them.
 |> > >
 |> > > I dont mind a RTFM, just tell me which FM.
 |>
 |> How much memory does the machine have? can you tell if its swapping as you
 |> type?
 |
 |Thanks for the reply Gerald.
 |
 |It not the memory thing. It may be to do with my choice of the 
 |US(international) keyboard. All KDE apps wait to see what the next character 
 |typed is and then place accents (gr�v�s?) on the vowels. Nice feature, but 
 |how do i turn it off!
 |
 |Michael
 |
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keyboard

This will let you choose your keyboard layout just as when you installed Mandrake.

HTH  
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