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From: Robert Persson <ireneshusband@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:36:32
Message-Id: 449E7330.2060902@yahoo.co.uk
1 I want to be able to use an international keyboard layout in X.
2 Something like the Apple U.S. layout would be really nice, but the U.S.
3 English Alternative International would do me fine for the moment.
4
5 The trouble is that I don't know how to get at all those extra
6 characters and diacritics. The Gnome keyboard preferences has a tab for
7 "layout options", but I don't have much clue what all the options mean.
8 Is the euro key or the accute accent deadkey to be accessed by switching
9 "group" or do I need to choose the "third level"? Or should I use "alt"
10 as "alt" and not as "meta", whatever that means (I know it has something
11 to do with emacs, but after that I'm lost). I have tried various
12 combinations of this and that, but I can't get anything to work.
13
14 Many thanks
15 Robert
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Re: [gentoo-user] wtf do all the Layout Options mean in gnome keyboard preferences? "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>