My single quote key is misbehaving

[Larry Lines]

I just had this problem the other day.  I re-installed ubuntu studio on
my laptop and I ended up with this crazy ' only happening when I typed
it twice.  If I typed 's it gave me a different character that kind of
looked like 's but was some other character.

I apparently missed a character during the keyboard test during setup
and it gave me a U.S. English International (with dead keys) default
keyboard layout.

You have to go to system-preferences keyboard and change the layout.  It
took some experimentation until I figured out which one I actually
needed and I ended up with U.S. English and now it is fine.

Larry Lines

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 08:46 -0700, Darrin Goodman wrote:
> Nice!  Thank you all for your help.  I will check this out further
> when I get home tonight.
> 
> Although I studied French and German in my younger years, English is
> really the only language that I am typing these days; I don't often
> need to type accents, but I am frequently needing to use an apostrophe
> or needing a single quote when writing code.
> 
> Since I didn't find this feature in Ubuntu, I made the incorrect
> assumption that this was a bug.
> 
> Thanks again for all of your help!
> 
> - Darrin
> 
> 
> On Nov 28, 2007 5:33 AM, Luis de Bethencourt <bethencourt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mine is below the ? key.
> > ' -> without shift
> > ? -> with shift
> >
> > Spanish keyboard. No clue why they make the international keyboards so
> > different from each other. All the latin languages should have a
> > similar one and they don't. Portuguese isn't that different from
> > spanish.
> >
> > Luis
> >
> >
> > On Nov 28, 2007 1:24 PM, Fernando M Lacerda <fernandomlac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi there!
> > >
> > > Seems like you don't want the "key composing" feature. If you want to
> > > type ´ and get ´ with only one move, then you should disable "key
> > > composing" on your "keyboard preferences". But you will be unable to
> > > easily type the composed characters á é í ó ú à è ì ò ù ä ë ï ö ü ã õ
> > > ñ... If this feature means nothing to you at all, this is all up to
> > > you.
> > >
> > > But Luis is right, you should know the actual single quote is not the
> > > ´ key, but the ' (mine is left from #1, I use a brazilian keyboard
> > > layout).
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Fernando M. Lacerda
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 28, 2007 1:32 AM, Darrin Goodman <darrin.goodman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I´ve been using Ubuntu since Dapper (and have also used Kubuntu,
> > > > Fluxbuntu, Nubuntu...) and have been using Ubuntu Studio now since it
> > > > came out under Feisty last year.  Never before have I seen this sort
> > > > of behavior, but when I installed the Gutsy version of Ubuntu Studio,
> > > > my single quote key on my laptop keyboard started misbehaving.
> > > >
> > > > Essentially, when I hit the single quote key, on the first click,
> > > > nothing happens, or sometimes my computer will beep at me but it won´t
> > > > print the quote.  Usually, the single quote appears after the second
> > > > click of the key.  Also, the single quote is not the standard tick
> > > > mark, but is rather a very sloped single quote.  Not sure if the slope
> > > > comes across or not in this email. ( ´ )
> > > >
> > > > The machine is a Thinkpad X60.  Anyone have any ideas?  This is
> > > > strange behavior.  Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > - Darrin
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list
> > > > Ubuntu-Studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list
> > > Ubuntu-Studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá
> > luisbg
> > <luisbg at ubuntu.com>
> > GPG: B0ED1326
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list
> > Ubuntu-Studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> .   __o
> ._ \ <,
> (*)/,(*)
> ----------------^----------^^-------------------------^---^--^^-^--------------------^^----------------
> Personally, I'd argue that MS is the dark side. Linux is
> enlightenment. Obi-won would have used Linux. Yoda probably BSD
> without GUI. Han would have used Sabayon (lots of glitz). Luke would
> have used a Mac :)
> -- Jim Hutchinson
>