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Humanius@lemmy.world 2 days agoSo the keyboard I’m using is US International (with deadkeys), which is the standard keyboard for the Netherlands.
Certain key combinations should create accented character, but certain other key combinations should simply print the accent followed by the character. Typing this way is essentially muscle memory for me, so if it deviates from what I’m used to it really trips me up badly.
Example:
', followed by e should type é (which Linux did correctly)
', followed by m should type 'm (where Linux typed an accented ḿ)
', followed by c should type ç (where Linux typed an accented ć)
', followed by ’ should type ‘’ (where Linux typed ')
', followed by [space] should type ’ (which Linux did correctly)
I checked several forums, but there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to change this behaviour in Linux. Dead key behaviour is seemingly consistent between keyboard layouts, and it can only either be on or off?
Pirata@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Hey, so I just tested this and you’re right, it doesn’t work as you described.
I suppose I unconsciously found workarounds and just ran with it.
For the examples you mentioned:
I’m is achieved by typing ’ and then space.
ç you can get with AltGr+<
The other two, I have no idea what they are, but I trust your judgment.
I also went around some forums and yeah it appears other people report it doesn’t work as it should. A bummer.
Maybe there already are some custom keyboard layouts out there you can download?
To get
Humanius@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!
And yeah… I could probably type all the characters I need to type through workarounds. But my problem is that I don’t think I should have to relearn how to type in order to switch to Linux. It’s a relatively niche issue I ran into, but I’m clearly not the only one running into it.
Which a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back.
Pirata@lemm.ee 2 days ago
You’re most welcome!
And yes, I completely 100% agree. Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.
Anyways, best of luck to you in the future!
Humanius@lemmy.world 2 days ago
One last question, which you might know perhaps… Where would one go to make feature requests for Linux itself?
If I quickly Google this I find places to make feature requests for specific distros, but not for Linux as a whole. I ask because I suspect this issue is more fundamental to Linux as a whole, rather than the individual distros I tried.