Hello Anne,
I now found the bug. I’m using Kubuntu 9.04 with KDE 4.2.
The problem was scim, which I use for typing Japanese and Chinese. It somehow conflicted with the dead key mechanism, but if I deactivate it, it works fine!
Gerrit
Am Montag, 20. April 2009 schrieb Anne Wilson:> On Saturday 18 April 2009 09:59:36 Gerrit wrote:> > Hello,> >> > I’m using the German keyboard layout “Dead Grave acute”. Sadly, I> > cannot type any Deadkeys in any KDE4 application. If I want to type â, I> > just get ^a. If I want to use a compose key, this doesn’t work either.> >> > If I type in Firefox or a KDE 3.5 application, this works fine.> >> > Weirdly, I also made my own keyboard layout, but I cannot access it via> > the keyboard selection tools from KDE. I manually have to select it via> > “setxkbmap -layout de -variant erweitert” from the console.> >> > Does anyone know how to fix it? Using dead keys is pretty important for> > typing languages such as French or even German.>> I've no personal experience, but I'm told that dead keys work fine in most> apps. Some questions ->> Which distro/version are you using?>> Which KDE version>> Do dead keys work in kwrite?>> Are you aware of any changes in your distro's handling of xorg? Some> recent changes have caused known issues.>> Apart from this, I'd recommend that you ask on irc.freenode.org, channel> #kde, or on forum.kde.org, where some more knowledgeable folk hang out.>> Anne
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