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. -- --------------------------------+----------------------------------- Byron Clark | http://www.byronandannie.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bits.byronandannie.net --------------------------------+----------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 0365 6979 6C3E BC0C 56C0 FB7F 12B3 75DD 042B EA68
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