Hi, many thanks to all the answers! However, Luis tip almost work for me, see below
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 14:49 -0500, Luis Finotti wrote: > Hi, > > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello! > > > > This problem had appeared many times in the past, as I can see brownsing > > the archives (user and user-portuguese), but no one of these solutions > > works in my case. This is my problem: I am running sarge + gnome 2.8. I > > have a qwerty keyboard and in Desktop Preferences --> Keyboard --> > > Layout I've selected "U.S. English w/deadkeys". I have all the special > > accents like áàâãä, both in console and in gnome applications. But I > > can't obtain the c-cedilla. The sequence '+c gives ć instead the > > c-cedilla. I will appreciate very much any help with this problem > > Try putting: > > export GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla > > in .bashrc or .bash_profile putting the line in .bashrc worked. Putting in .bash_profile the problem persists... so i left the line in .bashrc > Note that if you start applications from icons (e.g., taskbar buttom) > you might need to add this line to command used by the icon, or something. yes, if I call now the applications from the command line, I can write the c-cedilla. But if I call the application from a button in the panel, I get the problem again. Do you know how to concatenate the line "export GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla" with the command used by the icon in the icon's preferences window? Thanks in advance! Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]