Re: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.

[Shridhar Sahukar]

I found that I had selected keyboard format as "US International". 
Things are working fine when I change it back to "US English" layout.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Shridhar

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>        (Al Thompson)
>     4. Fw: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.
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>  Message: 1
>  Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:45:13 -0700
>  From: "Shridhar Sahukar" <ssahukar(a)openclovis.com&gt;
>  Subject: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.
>  To: Fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
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>  Hello,
>
>  I have installed FC6 on my Compaq nx6110 laptop. I was earlier using 
>  RHEL4 and there was no issue at all.
>  With FC6 I am facing some issue with my keyboard when I type characters 
>  like " (double quote), ' (single quote), ~ (tilde), ` (back quote) etc. 
>  These characters wont appear as soon as I type then. But if I press 
>  <space key> following these characters, then they appear.
>  I had enabled some regional languages during installation, which had 
>  installed some package called "SCIM". I suspected the problem with the 
>  package and uninstalled it, but it didnt help.
>
>  Has anyone come across the same problem? Is there any known issue?
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>
>  Regards,
>  Shridhar
>
>
>
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>  Message: 2
>  Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:24:53 +0200
>  From: Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop(a)gmx.de&gt;
>  Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.
>  To: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
>  Message-ID: <200708151924.53757.adalbert.prokop(a)gmx.de&gt;
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>  Shridhar Sahukar schrieb am Mittwoch, 15. August 2007:
>
>    
> > With FC6 I am facing some issue with my keyboard when I type characters
> > like " (double quote), ' (single quote), ~ (tilde), ` (back quote) etc.
> > These characters wont appear as soon as I type then. But if I press
> > <space key> following these characters, then they appear.
> >     
>
>  Sounds like "dead keys" are active. With "dead keys" you are able to
> type 
>  characters like n~ or e'.
>
>  Where do you have this problems? KDE? Gnome? Or on the console? Both KDE 
>  and Gnome have their own keyboard managers which are responsible for the 
>  layouts. If you expect those troubles on the console, use 
>  system-config-keyboard to change the keyboard layout and deactivate the 
>  dead keys.
>
>