Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 23, 2003 01:17 AM
I'm also using SuSE 8.2 & KDE. The "easiest" answer may depend on which languages you need dead keys for. For most, I assume Jaap's method works.
For Czech, I found that everything worked except the dead caron (1/2 a dead key: the other half of the same key, the dead carka, worked fine). I tried fiddling around with xmodmap and kimap per a mini-HOWTO on setting up international keyboards. (You can find one at http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/linux/howto/min<nobr>i<wbr></nobr> /intkeyb.htm and can find others by searching on '"dead keys" linux accents kde' or the like.) But no dice: every Czech keyboard bit worked except the dead caron, 1/2 a key.
In the end I used a work-around: I installed the whole system in Czech from a clean reformat, then added a US keyboard later. It even adds a layer of security against manual logon attempts, because even if someone knows my password, they don't know where all the keys are to type it.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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Re:US international keyboard?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 23, 2003 01:17 AMFor Czech, I found that everything worked except the dead caron (1/2 a dead key: the other half of the same key, the dead carka, worked fine). I tried fiddling around with xmodmap and kimap per a mini-HOWTO on setting up international keyboards. (You can find one at http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/linux/howto/min<nobr>i<wbr></nobr> /intkeyb.htm and can find others by searching on '"dead keys" linux accents kde' or the like.) But no dice: every Czech keyboard bit worked except the dead caron, 1/2 a key.
In the end I used a work-around: I installed the whole system in Czech from a clean reformat, then added a US keyboard later. It even adds a layer of security against manual logon attempts, because even if someone knows my password, they don't know where all the keys are to type it.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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