On Wednesday 06 September 2006 11:13, Tony Nelson wrote: >At 9:07 AM -0400 9/6/06, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... > >>Now, if someone could tell me how to coax my US keyboard into properly >>spelling your name with the ommlauts over the o, I'd love it, ditto for >>the beta and copyright signs. I could do that with my old amiga >> keyboard. Hint hint... > >System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Options -> Compose Key >Position. Choose the key you want, or note the current selection. >Close dialog. Type <key>-" (<key>-shift-', a dead key if it works) >and then type "o". In general, the dead key to use is punctuation >that "looks like" the desired accent mark. Mmm, with my now ancient kde, the choices are us and international, so I just set it to international, so Jorg is still Jorg, anything else opens up a requestor menu as kde is intercepting them. >-- >____________________________________________________________________ >TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
