German umlauts are missing, Kubuntu 9.10

[Hausmoasta]

Hi Bas,
don't know who else will follow this thread - so I'll try to stay in
english.

Bas Roufs schrieb:
> /Hello Tom
> /
>
>     Hi!
>     My umlauts have gone. Unfortunately, not everywhere. ,....
>
>
> /
> Go to the following menu: K > System Settings > Regional and Language
> > Keyboard settings.
> Than, look at the list of available lay-outs and click at 'Germany'
> and press the little green triangle to the right in order to
> activate'the German layout. After doing so, you will see a list of
> 'lay-out variants'. I advise you to try one or more of the following
> variants:
> dead acute
> dead grave acute
> Romanian key ...dead keys
> Sun dead keys
> Macintosh dead keys
> /
None of them worked. The function itself is working, when I try Dvorak I
get: ,.pyf
But this way should influence all applications. My problem is, that
there are some applications (openoffice, kate,..) with no problems and
some applications which don't want to show me the umlauts (Mozilla,
gedit). And that all depends on the logged-in user.
> /A so-called 'dead' key can be a key with ", ', `, ~, ^. If you press,
> by example, one time at " and immediately afterwords one time at a,
> you will get ä. The combination of ' and e delivers é. Etc. If you
> need ' or " or another dead key sign, press it two times quickly one
> afte another. By using 'dead keys' I can type considerably quicker in
> languages like German and French.
> /
But there's a button on my german-keyboard with the umlaut-a, there
should be no reason to use such a workaround. Even because it is working
in other applications, users,..
> /Press at 'apply' in order to change the settings throughout the system.
>
> Stay at 'keyboard settings', but go to the tab 'advanced'. Scroll
> through that list till you see 'compose key position'. There, choose
> 'right win' or another button as ´compose key'. Several characters
> that cannot be invoked via a 'dead key' can be found via a 'compose'
> key. In order to get the character ç (in e.g. François), I first press
> in my case right-win, than , than c.
> Press again at 'apply' in order to get this change throughout the system.
>
> I hope this will help you. Respectfully yours,
> /
Thank you. But these hints didn't work. Any chance to install something
like a keyboard-sniffer? It is funny, that kvkbd makes the same
problems, so can except problems with the hardware.
Ciao
Tom
> /Bas.
> P.S. Falls Du noch Fragen hast, kannst Du mich auch auf deutsch
> schreiben.
> /
Wie gesagt, evtl. hat einer, der der deutschen Sprache nicht maechtig
ist, einen erfolgversprechenden Ansatz. Waere Schade, wenn ich den dann
verpassen wuerde.