2009/8/12 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:34:30 +0200 > Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> dijo: > >> On my laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 it works >> perfectly, and so does the compose key. >> On my Eee PC 900 I have Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, and >> neither Ctrl+Shift+u nor the compose key works. I don't know if this >> can be of any kind of clue to anyone… >> >> Well, I did some more experiments, and the reason for why it didn't >> work on my Eee was that Num Lock was on, so the u key wasn't u >> anymore, but 4, and Ctrl+Shift+4 doesn't mean anything particular, at >> it seems… >> >> Now I turned Num Lock off, and it works as expected, except that I get >> different characters with my compose key on Ubuntu 9.04 than on my >> Ubuntu 8.10 machine, for example Compose c o gives © and so does >> Compose o c on Ubuntu 9.04. On Ubuntu 8.10 I get © and ǒ respecively, >> but I guess that's another issue… > > Wow! So apparently it was just the stupid num lock key! Now I feel like > a real dumbass. :(
Don't; I scratched my head quite a few times too before I figured it out… (I use an external keyboard sometimes for my Eee, and when I do I switch Num Lock on and when I disconnect the external keyboard to connect it to my other computer, I sometimes forget to turn Num Lock off, and since this happened a few times, I guess I was helped by that a little…). Johnny Rosenberg > > I have advised my user to check the num lock key > > Thanks a million for figuring it out! > -- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
