On Sunday 24 January 2010 20:10:13 Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Martin Kho wrote:
> I have a strange issue. In the BIOS I've set the NumLock to on. During
> booting it is turned off (huh..), so I have set 'Turn on' 'NumLock on
> KDE Startup' in KDE.
I reported this bug on October 20, 2008 and it has remained unfixed through
all the versions of fedora and rawhide since then. It is bz# 467790. I
have tried setting bios numlock on, bios numlock off, kde to on, kde to
off, kde to unchanged, but nothing works. Only a couple of weeks ago,
after over 2 years of complaining on bugzilla, have I given up. I now have
bios off, kde to unchanged, and the system boots with numlock off and I
have to expressly turn it on when I use it. Admittedly, as I think the
number pad is a bit useless and superfluous anyway, I don't use it much
anyway. Prior to about fedora 7 or 6, this used to work correctly.
> Since KDE 4.3.4, when I wanted to have quotes ('`"...) I needed to type
> an extra space. Typically a wrong keyboard lay out was chosen!? I Just
> enabled 'Enable keyboard layouts' in 'Regional & Language' and
didn't
> change anything. This solved the 'quotes-issue', but it turns off the
> NumLock-light (NumLock- function is still turned on).
I am not really sure what is going on there and I am not a developer or
programming expert. It sounds somewhat like there is a possibility that
maybe you might be getting the excellent us-acentos (international)
keyboard layout by default. If this is the case and you don't like it, you
can disable it in system-settings, regional/keyboard. Enable keyboard
layouts and make sure you have the evdev-managed keyboard, no matter what
model you really have, select your language below, and under layout
variant for your language, choose default to disable the international
keyboard.
If you want to give it a try after all, select international (with dead
keys). This international is also known as acentos on the command line and
it has the advantage of allowing the keys on the keyboard to work like
they are supposed to, ie. the accents for many European and other
languages really work (you type the accent, then the letter, and the
accented character will be typed). When you want the accent typed as a
character, then you type the right alt (sometimes AltGr) along with the
character (note that many of the accent characters appear on the upper
case level, so you have to type right-Alt-Shift plus the accent; I think
there is also a way to do this with the space bar preceded by the accent
character, but I have not used that method and am not sure exactly how it
works).
This takes a day or two to get used to, mainly when using the frequently
occurring apostrophe and quotation mark, but once you are used to it, you
will wonder how you ever got along without it. It allows you to type names
and words correctly without having to enter cryptic codes or using
cumbersome tools such as kcharselect to enter the characters.
Hi,
Thanks for your explanation. I'll try your suggestion and will see if I can
use to it :-)
Martin Kho
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