On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 14:13 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote: > I don't speak Czech, but I experimented on my keyboard. Mine is set to pc105, > us intl (acentos) layout, both in xorg.conf and KDE Control Centre Keyboard > Layout. You really only need the latter, but defining it in xorg.conf means > all X programs know about the keyboard. > > Type AltGr-Shift->, which produces a dead hachek, then type either lower or > upper case 'c'. Voilà! AltGr is the right Alt key. Typing AltGr-Shift-> twice > types the hachek without a letter underneath. All the dead keys work like > this. > > If you want to configure xorg.conf, this is what I have (adjust for your > keyboard, but this is pretty generic): > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > Option "XkbVariant" "us-acentos" > EndSection Just as you write. With the "us-acentos" option, the keys :` ~ ' ": become dead keys useful for forming (say) :à ñ á ä:. And typing AltGr-Shift-> produces a dead ˇ. This is interesting to know, but it replaces one difficulty (how to produce a haček) with a greater one (how to produce a quote, backquote or tilde.) Thanks - jon
