I have been trying to upgrade (ended up trashing and reinstalling) from 11.1 to 11.2. I selected French language with UK keyboard. This option seems in the end to just default to the French keyboad.
Reinstalled with UK lang and UK keyboad which is acceptable to me but I then find a big problem. How do I set the compose key so I can enter accented characters etc. (é ô œ …) Prior to 11.2 this was some with SAX but SAX support for keyboards appears to have been removed and I believe should be provided by KDE, Gnome, etc.
Does anyone know how to define the compose key in 11.2? I have searched google and the suse forums but found nothing other than something in German that I did not understand.
While I could buy a French or perhaps better a Swiss keyboard for the tower this is not a real option for the laptop and on-screen keyboards are useless.
Thanks
Found how to do it in KDE. It is not under Keyboard but under language and region. Still don’t understand why French language and uk keyboard seem to be a problem but that install has now been overwritten
…] and I believe should be provided by KDE, Gnome, etc.
I am not sure about GNOME, but KDE does offer to configure the keyboard-layout: systemsettings → Country / Region & Language (or something like this, I am on a german KDE) → Keyboard layout.
YaST asks you to say what keyboard hardware you are using; so if you change the hardwiring of your keyboard, you need to tell YaST.
To use up to four different keyboard layouts on any installed keyboard, you can use KDE’s System Settings>Regional>Keyboard layout.
Incidentally some are very similar; Czech can also be used for German and Polish for English if you need more than four.
Not sure how many options are available under Gnome.