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Questions tagged [dead-keys]

Dead keys allows the user to easily enter characters like è õ ï ... etcetera from the keyboard.

Some keyboard settings allow to combine letters with special marks.

  • a + ' = á
  • e + " = ë
  • n + ~ = ñ

The name dead keys comes from the effect that first time you strike ^ ` ~ ' " nothing appears to happen.

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Tuning keyboard (dead key) functionality in X

My preferred keyboard configuration is US-International. When I use it on MS-Windows and type certain special characters (i.e., ~ ' ") followed by a, o n I get á ó or ñ as I wish. However when I type these characters followed by a letter that…
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Insert both characters if a dead key combination is not recognized (e.g. 'a → á, 'b → 'b)

When I use any variation of English, US international (with dead keys,altGr dead keys or alternative) on my Linux Mint machine I always encounter this behaviour. When I press one of these keys: ' " and then follow them with a 'non-accentable'…
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Create own dead_key

I am currently working to create a specific greek keyboard layout adapted to French Swiss Keyboard, I create a keyboard layout to be put to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/( https://github.com/grecromand/grecromand/blob/master/linux/grecromand). I used…
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GTK_IM_MODULE=xim breaks dead keys in GTK and QT applications

I'm using XIM to have the compose key take into account my ~/.XCompose file (it's the only input method that takes it into account, all the others I tried use hard-coded tables). However, it is breaking the dead keys in GTK and QT application: If in…
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Dead (compose) keys not working in GTK apps since upgrade

I'm running Kubuntu with KDE as my main desktop environment. A while ago I set up dead keys so I can type Chinese pinyin and other accented letters and special characters. As a side note, I use IBUS because it seemed to be easiest to set up my…
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Dead keys maps missing in certain programs only

I cannot use ^ with certain programs. I'm working in KDE on OpenSUSE 13.1 64b. ^ works as a dead key in Konsole, Firefox, Chrome, Gvim. ^ has no effect (pressing ^ then a just inserts a) in Xterm, Emacs, Opera, Libreoffice. My…
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Enable dead key diacritic indicator

I recently tried Debian Buster with KDE Plasma 5 and I noticed a cool feature which I'd like to have on my current distribution. I use a US international keyboard with dead keys layout and, with Debian, as soon as I press a dead key (such as ` or…
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Always insert the diacritic after a dead key

A followup question on this subject, perhaps any of you can help with that too. In Windows the layout for US International does/did this for me; Typing I ' d yields I'd (with no extra jams on the spacebar). ' e keys yield é (with no extra keys…
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How to make Dead Keys(Compose) Work with Window Managers?

My Window Manager/Desktop Environment has some applications where the dead keys (e.g.`, ~, ö) are not working by default, when I press then, they sometimes doesn't show at all on key press, sometimes they don't have the expected behavior('`'+ 'e'=…
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Problem with dead-key in linux (debian + KDE)

I am trying to have a clean configuration for my keyboards and layout. I want to be able to switch between FR layout and US international layout with dead keys. When I switch using the GUI it works well, except that the dead keys doesn't working…
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What happens when type dead key "acute accent" then "o" to produce "ó"?

I'm on Belgian keyboard (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be) and when I type AltGrù it produces the dead key "acute accent", it waits for another key, o for example, to produce ó. How can I change which character is produced, such that I can do ´ + o = ɔ…
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Typing dead key after base letter

The US International keyboard allows to add diacritics by means of dead keys. Specifically: `a maps to à and 'a maps to á. In X, using the international or the standard US keyboard, I would like instead to set mappings like this: a` maps to á…
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Can I disable dead keys for a single application?

I am unable to properly use dead key characters ( ' " ^ ) on (k)ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 in arduino (a processing based application, at least version 0022 and 1.0). Can I disable dead keys for specific application or application window, or does…
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Dead key not working with konsole, yakuake

After setxkbmap fr, dead keys do not work under konsole and yakuake (typing the dead key ^ immediately prints a ^, rather than wait for the next character), while they work in xterm. The font I'm using supports them, and it is possible to input…
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Is there a way to use a PT_BR locale in an English installation of Debian?

I'm Brazilian but when I installed Debian on my machine I set the language to English (US). I prefer to keep my menus and error messages in English because they are more googable (and the translations aren't always the best...). Anyway, this had the…
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