Re: [e-users] [E-devel] English keyboard with dead keys

[José R. M. <j.r...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 08:49:38AM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 09:51:05 -0300 José Romildo Malaquias <j.r...@gm...>
> said:
> 
> > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 01:53:49PM +0800, P Purkayastha wrote:
> > > On 05/25/2013 10:31 AM, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > How can I set a notebook keyboard to US INTL (English with dead keys)
> > > > with enlightenment-0.17.3 (on ~amd64 gentoo)?
> > > >
> > > > In the "Keyboard Settings" dialog I had a "us (default, basic)"
> > > > configuration with the "Generic 105-key (intl) PC (pc105)" model, but
> > > > dead keys are not working.
> > > >
> > > > Any clues?
> > > >
> > > > Romildo
> > > 
> > > Is that a variant of the "us (default)"? In that case, this keyboard 
> > > setting has been broken for nearly a year. Variants don't work.
> > 
> > Yes, it is a variant of the "us (default)" layout.
> > 
> > For other desktop environments/window managers, I have the following in
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf:
> > 
> > 
> >   Section "InputClass"
> >   	MatchIsKeyboard	"on"
> >   	Identifier	"system-setup-keyboard"
> >   	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105,abnt2,microsoftmult"
> >   	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us,br,br"
> >   	Option		"XkbVariant"	"intl,,"
> >   	Option		"XkbOptions"	"grp:shift_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
> >   	#Option		"XkbOptions"	"terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,"
> >   EndSection
> > 
> > 
> > Is there an entry in the bug tracker for this bug?
> > 
> > Is there any hope it is fixed soon?
> 
> i have used this for years - under options (in the kbd settings) under "compose
> key position" i selected "caps lock" (since i find caps utterly useless 99.9999%
> of the time and have better things for it to do).. so now i can use it as a
> dead key. the kbds i do have are us qwerty (thus re-use caps for this) or are
> jp or kr layouts, and with jp/kr choosing the right layout works fine (the
> input mode modifier keys produces the right keysym)... so as best i see - it's
> al there and works.

That is not exactly what I want.

I am looking for a way to get the same keyboard setup I have been using
for years independently of the window manager used: us intl. It is the
combination of "pc105" model, "us" layout, and "intl" variant. I do not
want to use one compose key together with two more keys every time I
need an accented letter. With the us intl keyboard, the accents are dead
keys themselves. To get an "á" for instance, I just type "'" followed by
"a". The language I most use is Portuguese, which uses accented letters
a lot. Typing them with an individual compose key may be much less
productive than with the us intl configuration.

This us intl setup used to just work with enlightenment, but now it does
not work anymore. It would be nice if someone could take a look at it
and maybe fix it.

Romildo