On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:46:46PM -0800, Gary Thornock wrote:
> I'm trying to configure a laptop to use multiple keyboard layouts so
> I can type in English (without dead keys -- dead keys get in the way
> when I'm writing code!) and Spanish (which requires dead keys).
> 
> So far, I've got this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> 
>   Option      "XkbLayout"  "us,us_intl"
>   Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrls_toggle"
> 
> and that seems to work, except for one thing: I can't get the Spanish
> inverted punctuation to show up.  On the us_intl keyboard, that is
> produced using the right ALT key together with the normal
> punctuation.
> >From the testing I've done so far, it appears that something in KDE
> is trapping the ALT key combinations, so the Spanish punctuation
> doesn't work.

I usually use 'setxkbmap es' from a terminal to switch to a spanish
keyboard layout and then 'setxkbmap us' to switch back to a US keyboard
layout.

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