[LBo] umlauts with a US English keyboards

[TLS]

After seeing this message that I put on the LBO, a friend of mine send this 
link:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/04/msg01611.html
The link explains how to type in a terminal when in kde the command 'setxkbmap 
de' to change the keyboard to a German keyboard and 'setxkbmap us' to change 
it back to American English.

The LBO is really a great Linux resource.

Terry

On Monday 31 July 2006 02:59 pm, TLS wrote:
> Stefan,
>
> Here is the keyboard section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> **********************************************************************
> # Core keyboard's InputDevice section
> # **********************************************************************
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
>     Identifier	"Keyboard1"
>     Driver	"kbd"
>
> # For most OSs the protocol can be omitted (it defaults to "Standard").
> # When using XQUEUE (only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris),
> # uncomment the following line.
>
> #    Option     "Protocol"      "Xqueue"
>
>     Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>
> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> #    Option	"Xleds"      "1 2 3"
>
> #    Option "LeftAlt"     "Meta"
> #    Option "RightAlt"    "ModeShift"
>
> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> # lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> #    Option "XkbModel"    "pc105"
> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> #    Option "XkbModel"    "microsoft"
> #
> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> #    Option "XkbLayout"   "de"
> # or:
> #    Option "XkbLayout"   "de"
> #    Option "XkbVariant"  "nodeadkeys"
> #
> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> # control keys, use:
> #    Option "XkbOptions"  "ctrl:swapcaps"
>
> # These are the default XKB settings for Xorg
> #    Option "XkbRules"    "xorg"
> #    Option "XkbModel"    "pc105"
> #    Option "XkbLayout"   "us"
> #    Option "XkbVariant"  ""
> #    Option "XkbOptions"  ""
>
> #    Option "XkbDisable"
>
>     Option "XkbRules"	"xorg"
>     Option "XkbModel"	"pc101"
>     Option "XkbLayout"	"en_US.UTF-8"
>
> EndSection
>
>
> # **********************************************************************
>
> I changed "XkbLayout" from "us" to "en_US.UTF-8" with the hope of including
> international characters.  I still can't get umlauts with vi or any text
> editor in X11.  Do I need to make additional changes to this xorg.conf
> file? Am running Slackware 10.2.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Terry