Problems getting dead keys to work on US int'l keyboard

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Hi all,

I’ve been trying to set up the US int’l keyboard setting, but somehow the dead keys don’t work (that is, if I press a dead key, I get the diacritics right away so that I’m unable to combine them with letters).

Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be, and what I might do about it?

Thanks,

homoludens

My system environment is:

** HARDWARE **
Laptop: Panasonic Let’s Note CF-Y2

** SOFTWARE **
KDE: 3.5.9 “release 49.1”
OS: openSUSE 11.0 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.9-0.2-pae i686

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Go to Yast, then Keyboard Layout, then under the Layout tab change Variant into intl.

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I think you misunderstood me. I do know how to set the int’l keyboard up, but the dead keys don’t work as they are expected to.

Actually, the problem doesn’t seem to pertain to the US int’l keyboard alone; I’ve tried the German, French, and Swiss keyboard layouts, and the dead keys are not working there either.

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homoludens1000 wrote:

> Actually, the problem doesn’t seem to pertain to the US int’l keyboard
> alone; I’ve tried the German, French, and Swiss keyboard layouts, and
> the dead keys are not working there either.

It is not keyboard related. Go into desktop settings, go to Regional
accesability ==> keyboard layout. Tab XKB options, activate them and loads
of options for keyboard usage can be set.

HTH

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Yeah, the XKB options are activated. But I still don’t get functioning dead keys.