Wulfy wrote:
> Try pressing ; e which should give é. If it does, the other
> accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard.
This works for me under both Hardy and Dapper.
The trick is to remember the ; (semicolon) first. Ie. hold down AltGr,
press semicolon (;), rele
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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> Wulfy wrote:
> | Try pressing ; e which should give é. If it does, the other
> | accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard.
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> This does not work for me and hasn't in the 4 years or so th
> OK, I'm writing a piece of coursework for french, and I can insert â,
> é etc by going in open-office "insert > special character", but this
> is a bit irritating when you need to keep doing it. Is there a way to
> make a keyboard shorcut for special characters?
Along with all the suggestion
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Tony Arnold wrote:
| Did you type the semi-colon as well? Just to be clear, it's hold down
| the AltGr, press the semi-colon, release and type the e.
Ah, cheers Tony. I was indeed missing the semi-colon. Years of ingrained
Windows behaviour blinded m
Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:23:32 Gavin Ford wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:12:51PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
>>> If you do, you might want to consider using a VM technology such as
>>> VirtualBox or VMware to get an instance of Windows rather than dual boot.
>> Another
Stephen,
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> Wulfy wrote:
> | Try pressing ; e which should give é. If it does, the other
> | accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard.
>
>
> This does not work for me and hasn't in the 4 years or so that I've been
> using Linux (Fedora and U
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:37:50AM +0100, Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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> Wulfy wrote:
> | Try pressing ; e which should give é. If it does, the other
> | accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard.
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> This does not w
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Wulfy wrote:
| Try pressing ; e which should give é. If it does, the other
| accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard.
This does not work for me and hasn't in the 4 years or so that I've been
using Linux (Fedora and U
James,
James Grabham wrote:
>
> OK, I'm writing a piece of coursework for french, and I can insert â, é
> etc by going in open-office "insert > special character", but this is a
> bit irritating when you need to keep doing it. Is there a way to make a
> keyboard shorcut for special characters?
