On Sunday 24 January 2010 20:10:13 Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Martin Kho wrote:
> > I have a strange issue. In the BIOS I've set the NumLock to on. During
> > booting it is turned off (huh..), so I have set 'Turn on' 'NumLock on
> > KDE Startup' in KDE.
>
> I reported this bug on October 20, 2008 and it has remained unfixed through
> all the versions of fedora and rawhide since then. It is bz# 467790. I
> have tried setting bios numlock on, bios numlock off, kde to on, kde to
> off, kde to unchanged, but nothing works. Only a couple of weeks ago,
> after over 2 years of complaining on bugzilla, have I given up. I now have
> bios off, kde to unchanged, and the system boots with numlock off and I
> have to expressly turn it on when I use it. Admittedly, as I think the
> number pad is a bit useless and superfluous anyway, I don't use it much
> anyway. Prior to about fedora 7 or 6, this used to work correctly.
>
> > Since KDE 4.3.4, when I wanted to have quotes ('`"...) I needed to type
> > an extra space. Typically a wrong keyboard lay out was chosen!? I Just
> > enabled 'Enable keyboard layouts' in 'Regional & Language' and didn't
> > change anything. This solved the 'quotes-issue', but it turns off the
> > NumLock-light (NumLock- function is still turned on).
>
> I am not really sure what is going on there and I am not a developer or
> programming expert. It sounds somewhat like there is a possibility that
> maybe you might be getting the excellent us-acentos (international)
> keyboard layout by default. If this is the case and you don't like it, you
> can disable it in system-settings, regional/keyboard. Enable keyboard
> layouts and make sure you have the evdev-managed keyboard, no matter what
> model you really have, select your language below, and under layout
> variant for your language, choose default to disable the international
> keyboard.
>
> If you want to give it a try after all, select international (with dead
> keys). This international is also known as acentos on the command line and
> it has the advantage of allowing the keys on the keyboard to work like
> they are supposed to, ie. the accents for many European and other
> languages really work (you type the accent, then the letter, and the
> accented character will be typed). When you want the accent typed as a
> character, then you type the right alt (sometimes AltGr) along with the
> character (note that many of the accent characters appear on the upper
> case level, so you have to type right-Alt-Shift plus the accent; I think
> there is also a way to do this with the space bar preceded by the accent
> character, but I have not used that method and am not sure exactly how it
> works).
>
> This takes a day or two to get used to, mainly when using the frequently
> occurring apostrophe and quotation mark, but once you are used to it, you
> will wonder how you ever got along without it. It allows you to type names
> and words correctly without having to enter cryptic codes or using
> cumbersome tools such as kcharselect to enter the characters.
Hi,
Thanks for your explanation. I'll try your suggestion and will see if I can
use to it :-)
Martin Kho
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