Maxwell Hammer wrote:


> Just a question (to show how little I know about kyeboards): why would you
> want dead keys enabled with a US english keyboard? You say they work in
> Kword etc, do you mean that you can actually get non-english chars using
> dead keys with english keyboard?
>

There are a lot of words with accents in Dutch and the QWERTY- (US)
keyboard is standard here.
And yes, you can: à, á, ä, ã.
With Slack - in OO - the accents don't work at all: quotes are impossible.
OO on Suse and Gentoo did not have this problem, as far as I remember.
And I know that the keyboard defs in Gentoo's XF86Config were no different
from those in Slack.
I googled in AOLS to no avail.