* Robert Tillsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi guys
> I've been looking into being able to type accented characters in linux.
> This is because I'm learning german and want to be able to type notes.
>
Hello Robert.
Perhaps the neatest thing available now is sexkbmap which should come
with X.
You'll need a recent xterm (version 4.1.0 or newer). Get a utf-8 xterm
running by calling 'uxterm'.
You can then use different keyboard layouts by calling (for instance)
setxkbmap de
If you want to get back to the US layout, call setxkbmap us or
setxkbmap us_group3.
All the layouts are in listed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kbd.
Some of them can be toggled back to US by using the right alt key as
a switch.
'setxkbmap de' will give you umlauts on the keys around ;'\[] etc.
The German ss character is where you'd expect =.
Read http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html
for a full treatment.
Nick
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