On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:57:22 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: > I want to get back to the old behavior I had where my i386/pc/qwerty > keyboards had dead keys for international characters (like ~n, but with > the ~ over the n). > > Can this be done anymore or not? > > dpkg-reconfigure console-data and selecting all keyboards provides me > this (abbreviated) list: > pc / qwerty / US american / Standard / Standard pc / qwerty / US > american / Standard / US International (ISO 8859-1) pc / qwerty / US > american / Standard / US International (ISO 8859-15) pc / qwerty / US > american / Standard / With latin1 > > "dead keys" are not in the list. I've tried some of these (the first > two choices), but no dead keys. The nice thing about dead keys (besides > being used to them) is that they worked in xterm, OpenOffice, IceWeasel, > etc.
Usually you can do this by using your DE keyboard settings (in GNOME, gnome-keyboard-properties / layout / adding US-Intl "altgr dead keys"). Or by manually editing "/etc/defaults/keyboard" values, i.e.: *** XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="intl" *** Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.04.16.11...@gmail.com
