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[jplagarde]

I need to figure out how to type Spanish accents on Dingo! Especially when using abiword!! I'm on my MAC right now i need these éáñ etc .. on the mac you simply type option while holding e then the next key stroke will be accented ..

anyway to do this?

Thanks!!

[erikson]

[jplagarde]

The problem is that i don't know the keystrokes to get these special characters no matter what keyboard layout I'm using. If i hit alt in abiwork it thinks i want the top menu. Where can i find the keystrokes for the various layouts. I have seen the wikipedia site but it doesn't spell out how you actually make the characters.

Thanks!

[erikson]

[jplagarde]

So frustrating because i've set it, using the keyboard/mouse wizard, to br-lat1-us, rebooted, and it still does not work. when I hit the( ' ) key to cause the action (its supposed to be a dead key till the second hit) and it doesn't work. I just prints the ' rather than waiting for the second key stroke.

Thanks for you help though ...

[erikson]

[erikson]

Okay... now I tested myself, by simulating a US-international keyboard.

After a couple of failed attempts, I ultimately did the following:

(1) Run Menu > Setup > Mouse/keyboard wizard and select br-latin1-us
(2) Run Menu > Setup > Xorg Video Wizard and click XorgWizard. This aborts X and brings up the video definition screen; redefine video resolution (in my case 1024x768, 24-bit color). This rebuilds file /etc/X11/xorg.conf that has the keyboard config parameter that is used in X.
(3) Test: I identified the key corresponding to the '/" key on US international. Press AltGr, keep it depressed, press-release '/" key, release AltGr. This is the US-international dead-key combination for accents. Then press a vowel, e.g. a, and this forms á. Same technique for é, í, ó, ú.
(4) Reboot and retest gives same results.

So step (2) was missing in my previous instructions. This means that in X the keyboard was still reset to standard US after reboot --- whatever the mouse/keyboard wizard might have said. Consider this as a mild bug in Puppy.

[jplagarde]

Erickson!

Well done! I have been struggling with this for days! What a great help you have been! I was beginning to wonder what was going on. How weird that you need to rerun the xvideowizard to get the other settings to stick.

I tried the keyboard layout you suggested but ultimately found ES - the straight spanish keyboard easier to manage!

Thanks so much again!!

JP

I'll edit the thread and put solved !

[erikson]

[frefel]

I was eagerly expecting to use these well researched findings to change my Puppy 4.2 keyboard to be able to type Spanish accented characters but, lo and behold, there is no "br-latin1-us" option on my keyboard menu.

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this with my present Puppy version?

Thanks.

[frefel]

Isn't there anyone using Puppy 4.2 with international characters that could explain how to set it up? Or is that not an option anymore?
Ayudame por favor (fijate en la falta de signos de acento ortografico)

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[disciple]

I guess this is probably too late for you now

Personally I don't like the deadkeys system. What I do is:
- not change the type of keyboard
- use xmodmap to make a key I wouldn't otherwise use a multi key (often called a compose key). This means to enter an accented character I press compose, then the accent, then the letter.

I'm afraid I don't have the time right now to explain properly, but basically to do it this way you need to:
1. run xev (I think these days it is in a package of Xorg extras in petget, or you can get it from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=244431#244431) and find out the keycode of the key you want to make the multi key. Some people like to use the right Windows key. I think my keyboard actually has the print screen key as a multi key by default - if you already have a multi key and you don't want to change it these instructions are kind of pointless .
2. map it with xmodmap. Do some research to find out the syntax if you want to run the command to test For it to automatically be mapped at startup, put code something like this in ~/.Xmodmap

[Shep]

[Shep]

For customising the keyboard for your own language,