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mentalpigeon

Member

Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 12

Cannot type Language-specific letters.

As a polish man, i often want to use a polish letter or two in my writing (usually achieved by combining alt+a, alt+c etc). Problem is, this can't be done in SliTaz. Or can it? I sure can't do it?

System language is English, keymap is pl2 (UTF-8).

Please help me.

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Cannot type Language-specific letters.

This may be possible using a combine key with a combo. For example, using my combine key (Right Windows Key) with s and o I get §. Maybe similar combination could be used to generate polish characters.

The key can be activated with [c]setxkbmap -option compose:rwin[/c] in terminal - you can change rwin to the key you want like ralt for right alt key. It works for me, but I had to add it as one of my auto-started applications so it's active after I boot.

This is where I found the above suggestion: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5995

mentalpigeon

Member

Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 12

Re: Cannot type Language-specific letters.

I found the solution outside of these forums. Here it is for anyone who has this problem in the future.

In etc/X11/xorg.conf

[c]Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier  "Keyboard0"
     Driver      "kbd"
     Option  "XkbLayout" "pl2"

EndSection[/c]
Change 'pl2' to 'pl'.

In /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi

[c]<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>[/c]

Change 'us' to 'pl'.

Logout X Session and log back in.

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