Hola Andriy: I think that your solution would have worked if KDE had permitted me to select "Include Latin Group". However, this selection remained grayed-out in the keyboard layout configuration no matter what I tried. However, your suggestion helped lead me to the solution which was to edit the file xfree86 in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/. There are three lines near the top of this file that are commented and start with !nonlatin followed by abbreviations for various nonlatin-alphabet languages. The file contains instructions to uncomment the !nonlatin lines when using nonlatin keyboards. This solution is a little convoluted and I suspect that if I could have activated the option you suggested it would have done what I needed. Can you suggest what I should do so that I can have available the KDE Control Center option to include the latin group? Best regards, Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: Andriy Rysin <arysin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:33 am Subject: Re: Russian keyboard Control+ and Alternate+ key combination > Check "Include Latin Group" option in keyboard layout configuration. > Let me know if that helps. > > Andriy > > 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. > ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.