Am 08.04.19 um 14:05 schrieb Eike Lantzsch: > On Monday, April 8, 2019 12:29:44 PM -04 Martin wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> since a few days, my qq(´) and qq(´)¹ don't work with a single press. I have >> to press twice. Who can tell me why? >> And, ho do I get my old single press behavior back? >> Sorry I don't get this keyboard magic in this life... >> >> 1) On a German keyboard, it is the key left of the backspace. >> >> >> Thanks, Martin > > Hi Martin, > do I understand correctly > a single press gave you ´ and with shift `?
No, it is like composing a letter: Typing ´ once does nothing, second time, it gives you the character. > so you were not able to write á and à by pressing the qq and then a? > Now one qq press and then a gives á? > Double press of qq now results in ´? > > The latter is the normal behaviour of my Gerrman keyboard layout. For me it's > useful because in a Spanish-speaking country I often need the accented > characters. This is with layout "German (dead grave acute)". I use 'nodeadkeys'. > You need to install "German (eliminate dead grave acute)" in your X-setup. I > don't know about xfce but for me it is enough to change this in the KDE setup. Well, it worked since 206 with this install. It just recently changed. > For programming and for the shell the behaviour with a single-press ´ is > better of course. > > I have no idea why this may have changed. Maybe look through the upgrade > protocolls of apt, if you want to know what happened. If you have more than > one keyboard layout installed (as I have) then a certain key-combination > might > have changed it unadvertently. > > Have success and a nice day Thanks. As it is such a nice day, I will finish my work soon and go to the Biergarten a couple of minutes across. Cheers!
