[SGVLUG] International keyboard issue (really short this time)

[Claude Felizardo]

On 9/6/05, Emerson, Tom <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> In my previous post, I mentioned that I have a GREEK keyboard (complete with all those funny symbols over the keys)  Since I re-installed, SuSE dutifully recognized the keyboard [so the "media" keys for volume now work "from the keyboard" -- whoohooo!] but also set my system up as somewhat more "international" than I'm used to.
> 
> In particular, when I type a quote character, either single or double, it doesn't alway show up until the NEXT character, and if that character is one in which an umlaout or accent mark is appropriate, it generates that character instead of a "quoted string"  (basically I have to remember to hit the quote character twice)
> 
> Where should I look to disable this specific behaviour?

You run KDE don't you?

On my Mandrake box running KDE 3.3, I select menu -> System ->
configuration -> configure your computer -> hardware -> Set up the
keyboard layout.  Mine is set up for a 105-key (Intl) PC.

Doing a google search on "linux change keyboard layout", i found a
reference that says to run kbdconfig which is what i get when i go
through the menus.  oh but that's apparently linked to keyboarddrake
so i'm not sure what it will be on another distro.

claude