> Single quote, double quote, tilde, backtick and circumflex characters need > two presses of the keyboard to appear onscreen. I´m not doing well finding > out why. I thought it was a scim artifact but I have uninstalled that and They're functioning as deadkeys (press eg single quote then a vowel to get an accented character). > removed its config files. kbd setup in XConfig seems fine, as do settings > for locale, etc in KDE. The effect occurs in every program running under X > whether native KDE or not. It does not occur on the console before X is > started. Ie runlevels 1, 3. System is i386 Athlon, SuSE9.2, KDE 3.4.1. > Any pointers would be very helpful. > Nicholas Fiddle with the settings in Control Center -> Regional and Accessibility -> Keyboard layout. You'll want a "nodeadkeys" option somewhere, I think. Regards, Philip -- KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc KDE Documentation Online: http://docs.kde.org ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.