Recently my puppy linux was all working fine, until suddenly it messed up and it turned the entire screen like a green-screen colour, except the mouse still being white.
To fix this I tried everything and nothing would work pfix=clean pfix=purge, etc - nothing at all, so in the end the only solution was to delete the SFS files from the hard drive (first backing up anything I had in there), and re-install Puppy from fresh from the CD.
Since re-installing Puppy from the CD from fresh I've had a major problem with the keyboard.
I set up the keyboard in exactly the same way I had done previously, setting it to UK GB settings and everything (as I live in the UK), but something went wrong.
Every time I try and type some of the special characters I have to remember to press space for example
'
"
^
~
if I forget to press space I sometimes get other foreign characters like ä or â, ś, ñ depending on which character I type next, or if I press the same key again I might get weird quotes like ´ or ¨.
I searched on the net and it would appear I've got dead keys enabled. I don't know how I've done this but it's a pain in the backside (especially as sometimes I switch between this computer and one running Windows which doesn't do this so I need to remember each time).
I've looked through the keyboard settings and on the internet for a way to make this revert to the old method.
On the internet it refers to it as a dead key mode which allows international typing easily, but I only speak English and only type English so I have no need for it.
I looked through the settings and the only reference I can find to dead key moe is in XkbConfigutation in the Layout Variants options which gives me two choices - either
1: intl gb: international (with Dead keys)
2: dvorak gb: dvorak
Now I know what Dvorak is so I don't want that, but I can't see a setting for intl gb: international (without Dead keys).
Where is this option, or how do I turn off the dead keys mode?
Turn off dead key mode on keyboard settings?
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Re: Turn off dead key mode on keyboard settings?
Maybe you should try to turn on Layout Variant nodeadkeysdarrenforster99 wrote:Where is this option, or how do I turn off the dead keys mode?
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Does this text appear at the top of the dialog box that lists the variants?
1: intl gb: international (with Dead keys)
Doing so will remove it.
After clicking OK, don't forget to click Yes (in the XKB Configuration Manager dialog) to activate new settings.
If so, you do want to choose:You are currently using the following variants:
intl gb: international (with dead keys)
1: intl gb: international (with Dead keys)
Doing so will remove it.
After clicking OK, don't forget to click Yes (in the XKB Configuration Manager dialog) to activate new settings.