Shridhar Sahukar
2007-Aug-16 18:51 UTC
Re: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters.
I found that I had selected keyboard format as "US International". Things are working fine when I change it back to "US English" layout. Thanks for the help. Regards, Shridhar fedora-laptop-list-request@redhat.com wrote:> Send Fedora-laptop-list mailing list submissions to > fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body ''help'' to > fedora-laptop-list-request@redhat.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fedora-laptop-list-owner@redhat.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Fedora-laptop-list digest..." > > > Today''s Topics: > > 1. Problem with keyboard while typing some characters. > (Shridhar Sahukar) > 2. Re: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters. > (Adalbert Prokop) > 3. Fw: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters. > (Al Thompson) > 4. Fw: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters. > (Al Thompson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:45:13 -0700 > From: "Shridhar Sahukar" <ssahukar@openclovis.com> > Subject: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters. > To: Fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com > Message-ID: <46C32D99.6030002@openclovis.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" > > Hello, > > I have installed FC6 on my Compaq nx6110 laptop. I was earlier using > RHEL4 and there was no issue at all. > With FC6 I am facing some issue with my keyboard when I type characters > like " (double quote), '' (single quote), ~ (tilde), ` (back quote) etc. > These characters wont appear as soon as I type then. But if I press > <space key> following these characters, then they appear. > I had enabled some regional languages during installation, which had > installed some package called "SCIM". I suspected the problem with the > package and uninstalled it, but it didnt help. > > Has anyone come across the same problem? Is there any known issue? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Shridhar > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:24:53 +0200 > From: Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop@gmx.de> > Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard while typing some characters. > To: fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com > Message-ID: <200708151924.53757.adalbert.prokop@gmx.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Shridhar Sahukar schrieb am Mittwoch, 15. August 2007: > > >> With FC6 I am facing some issue with my keyboard when I type characters >> like " (double quote), '' (single quote), ~ (tilde), ` (back quote) etc. >> These characters wont appear as soon as I type then. But if I press >> <space key> following these characters, then they appear. >> > > Sounds like "dead keys" are active. With "dead keys" you are able to type > characters like n~ or e''. > > Where do you have this problems? KDE? Gnome? Or on the console? Both KDE > and Gnome have their own keyboard managers which are responsible for the > layouts. If you expect those troubles on the console, use > system-config-keyboard to change the keyboard layout and deactivate the > dead keys. > >