Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:39:46
Message-Id: 4A03EFCA.4080702@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys by Jim Cunning
1 Jim Cunning schrieb:
2 > I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented
3 > characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts
4 > and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and
5 > other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply
6 > dead--no characters produced at all. When switching back to the US layout
7 > without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce two characters,
8 > as one would expect.
9 >
10 > I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3. Is
11 > there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system?
12
13 What USE flags are set for Openoffice? Does openoffice-bin have the same
14 problem?
15
16 Since you can't have both of them installed, use quickpkg to make a
17 binary package of your openoffice installation before unmerging it.
18 Then try out openoffice-bin. When you want your old version back, use
19 emerge -k openoffice to install from the binary package.

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