On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:20:35PM +0100, Ivan Villanueva wrote: > After installing Openoffice under Gnome from Sid the deadkeys (keys to > write eg vocals with accents) don't work in Opanoffice, but they work in > Gnome (eg with gedit, Mozilla). > Any Idea how to activate them? > Should not they be activated by default? From http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5397: Some people has reported that they cannot use the deadkeys in order to make non-standard-ascii characters in languages like Catalan or French (for example: , , , ...) The configuration of the X server must have: Xkb enabled with local keyboard configuration (edit your XF86Config file) The XkbVariant variable should NOT disable the deadkeys (XkbVariant "nodeadkeys") And the most important, and the cause of most problems: You must have locale settings set! For example, if you are Catalan, you can use the environment variable LANG to "ca_ES@euro" or "ca_ES". Some locales aren't supported for the Xfree86 server. Then, for example, if you are Catalan and want to use the deadkeys in a Spanish keyboard, you must use the locale "es_ES" (in my Xfree86 3.3.6 I cannot use "es_ES@euro" either). You can have the variable set in bash adding the line "export LANG=ca_ES\@euro" in your profile file (/etc/profile, or .bash_profile). I don't know if that is a bug of OpenOffice.org 1.0.0, but if you want to use the deadkeys, you must have that configuration. ------- Additional Comments From Joost Andrae 2002-06-03 07:53 PDT ------- Joost: is is not a bug. OpenOffice.org needs system settings to be well done.
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