Thanks for this info,it was the use of alt-gr key that i didnt know - vety helpful. Ive looked at several variants of english keyboard layouts and havent found one with the macron vowels. Since later i will probably also want caron vowels as well i dont think i'll go down that route. Also i want classical greek chars, and whilst i know that it is technically possible to get them from the keyboard (i used to do that when i used Windows) there are far too many key combinations to temember. When i get the chance i'll check for any ubuntu updates that might resolve the problems with Onboard; failing that i will try to write my own simple customisrd onscreen keyboard to conveniently select the characters i want - just as soon as i find out how to get a tkinter program to output the characters to a different running program,ie output the character without the tkinter app 'stealing' the focus. (I'll probably do that in any case at some stage but i don't know when as I've also got other pressing issues that have arisen since reinstalling ubuntu). Best Gary On Friday, 9 August 2019, 16:54:58 BST, James Knott <james.kn...@jknott.net> wrote: Are you referring to the International English keyboard I referred to ?
If so, you have to go into the input devices to select the layout. On openSUSE 15.1 & KDE, it's Configure Desktop > Input Devices. In Keyboard, Layouts tab, near the bottom, you'll find the area for configuring layouts. Enable Configure Layouts and make your choice. I selected English (intl., with AtlGr dead keys). You'll then have a layout for U.S. International English. You can see the layout here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards You then use the right Alt (Alt Gr) and shift keys to select which character a key represents. For example, Alt Gr & ; = ¶, Shift Alt Gr & ; = °, Alt Gr & 5 = €, etc. Most of the characters shown on the layout work. On 2019-08-09 11:31 AM, gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > How do you access the extra characters from the keyboard? (I used to > use ubuntu onboard onscreen keyboard which was very useful, especially > for clasical greek, but since upgrading ubuntu to 18.04 i havent been > able to get it to work for extended characters) > On Friday, 9 August 2019, 12:04:36 BST, James Knott > <james.kn...@jknott.net> wrote: > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
