Questions tagged [dead-keys]
Dead keys allows the user to easily enter characters like è õ ï ... etcetera from the keyboard.
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Ubuntu 24.04 Dead plus Key
I am new to Linux and just installed Ubuntu on my PC.
Everything seems to work fine, and I think in the beginning ply plus key worked, but since yesterday my plus key does not work anymore. I used ...
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Dead key affects two next key presses in Ubuntu24.04
I am migrating from Ubuntu-MATE 22.04, so probably it's an issue of GNOME or ibus, or I don't know of what is used here, especially on Wayland. But I didn't find a clue until now.
So I am using ...
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dead keys in wine due to my keyboard layout
I am using Ubuntu 23.10 and have a few games running through wine. These work perfectly other than some keys not being recognized from my keyboard. These are French characters like é, ç, à, ...
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Screen brightness increase and decrease keys inoperative
Screen brightness increase and decrease keys inoperative
On notebook Lenovo:
Family: IdeaPad 3 15ITL6
Press increases and decreases brigthness directly on the keyboard.
But on Ubuntu 5.19.0-23-generic ...
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Set keyboard as "US international with dead keys" in Ubuntu 22.04
Printscreen of keyboard setings options for english keyboardI can't set the option US intl with dead keys in Ubuntu 22.04, under Settings>Keyboards> input sources. So now, using a US keyboard I ...
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cannot type tamil word "thou" "dhou"
After downloading software and installing latha fonts, I am able to type out all the Tamil alphabets, except the Tamil alphabet rows of "thou", "dhou". The problem I encounter is ...
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Does Linux have a US international keyboard layout exactly like the windows version?
Given the huge number of keyboard layouts Ubuntu Linux offers for multiple languages, is there a US international keyboard layout exactly like the windows version?
For instance, in the Windows version,...
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Xfce: How to install US international keyboard with dead keys
I am using Ubuntu Server (18.04) with Xfce desktop environment (via VNC) on my server, and I struggle to figure out how to change keyboard layout as you can see here. The only choice is US. Other ...
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Can't type apostrophe, deadkeys do not work (bionic)
I use Ubuntu 18.04 bionic, and I use us(alt-intl) as a keyboard layout for Latin script, because sometimes I need type multilingual texts. Today I got very strange bug: now I cannot use the sign ' (...
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How can one make dead keys globally functional on a gnomeless Ubuntu environment?
Since I removed gnome and started using a WM only setup (bspwm) apps like st, urxvt, emacs and even alacritty stoped smart managing dead keys. Chrome, brave, firefox and gnome-terminal still do though,...
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Enable dead key usage in urxvt
I'm able to normaly use dead keys over the whole system.
FYI I live in Brazil and we use accented letters, as in é á ó ã õ.
We need dead key support for this as we type first the accent key " ´ " ...
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Dead keys stopped working in Geany
The last couple of days, my dead keys have stopped working in Geany. Dead keys is when you press ' followed by a to make á. If you press ' followed by a space you get a proper '. Same for " and ^.
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How to Reinstall (all) Language Package(s)
In my current instance of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, I have a bug of not having the English Intl with Dead Keys option in the Language packages (in my VM it actually does appear) and I haven't been able to ...
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Reference for special character input with dead keys
On Linux/Ubuntu, I have found a few options for entering special characters:
AltGr+Key and Shift+AltGr+Key on keyboards that have AltGr; those can be found on the Keyboard Layout Chart in Ubuntu. For ...
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How to get dead_greek on the F9 key?
I'm trying to get my F9 key to function as the dead_greek compose character. It's not working.
I have a custom keyboard layout in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us called mine. It has this entry for the ...
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