On Wednesday 06 September 2006 17:24, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. Hi Gene. Try Alt-Gr+Shift+Colon. This is with the US intl on KDE, FC2. It's a dead key, so you'll need to add the vowel you want to add the umlaut to. Nigel. > > >-- > >____________________________________________________________________ > >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.
