When you press ctl-whatever, a signal is send to the keyboard controller. This signal is independent of the keyboard being used, it is purely a matter of hardware. Once this hardware signal reaches the keyboard controller chip within the computer, it is interpreted into signals according to a preloaded keymap. This could be an English keymap, or Russian, or whatever. The keymaps for an X display are kept in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols. As always in *n*x systems, these files are plain text and can be modified. I have used this editing facility to extend the standard French keyboard that I usually use with extra accented letters. I have had a look at the Russian keyboard, /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ru, and I see how it works, but I am not sufficiently experienced to recommend how to modify the mapping to produce the results you want. For the moment, I would suggest that you use the keycombo such as shift-R+shift-L to momentarily swap to a Latin keyboard, press Ctrl-whatever and then return. You may need to contact people with direct X experience for further details. This is not specifically a KDE problem, but an X server problem. I am sure that the problem has been solved already. A Russian language mailing list should dig up the required info. Hope this helps Basil Fowler On Saturday 25 Feb 2006 21:34, surlyc@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am using SuSE 10.0 with KDE 3.4.2. I have 3 KDE keyboards set up: > Russian, English, and Spanish. > > The Russian keyboard does not have the function of the Control or Alternate > keys. For example, there is no Ctrl key combination that actuates bolding > or italics in a word processor and there is no Alt key combination that > activates menus (e.g., File or Edit menus). These key combinations work > fine with the KDE English and Spanish keyboards. > > Can you advise me regarding what my problem might be and how to solve it? > > Thank you for your attention. > > Alex > > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.