[ltp] a few long questions with potentially short answers

[nescivi]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 01:15:41 Andr=C3=A9 Wyrwa wrote:
> 6. OT: automatic input replacement:
> I have a US model, but find myself typing german stuff a lot, recently,
> needing umlauts quite a bit. Does anyone know of a little daemon or any
> other good solution to automatically replace ue,ae,oe,ss by their german
> versions in an application independent fashion? Maybe with holding a
> qualifier? I'm using gnomes charmap applet for now, but it's still too
> annoying.

I'm using a little applet (KDE keyboard tool; but I'm sure there's one for=
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Gnome too) to switch keyboard layouts... So even though my actual layout is=
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US, if I have to type German, I use the German layout (which I am familiar=
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enough with from my previous German layout thinkpad). I also have Dutch in=
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the mix, if I need the other accents (and I grew up with a Dutch layout=20
keyboard, which is only marginally different from the US one).

If you are not able to blind type, and tend to have to search for keys, thi=
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may not be a solution for you.

sincerely,
Marije