GNOME keyboard quotation marks and apostrophe

[CopperTiggy]

Hi,

I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the keyboard setting in GNOME 2.4 to fix this problem I'm having:

When it comes to my quotation mark " and apostrophe key ', you know, the one next to the enter key.... currently when I press it nothing happens. If I press it twice in succession, I get the ´ symbol, or the ¨ symbol if I hold shift. To get standard apostrophe ' and quotes ", I have to press the quote/apostrophe key and hit space.

And it is REALLY IRRITATING! I've tried to search for more information, but I haven't had much luck because I have no clue what to search for.

It didn't do this in Mandrake 9.2 (which had an earlier version of GNOME).

Any hints much aprechiated,

[dan@george]

One good idea would be to make sure the "InputDevice", "Generic Keyboard" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, or whatever section holds the information about your keyboard, contains the right information about your keyboard. That is, if you have a pc104 model, make sure you have a line that says

Option         "XkbModel"        "pc104"

Good luck.

[CopperTiggy]

I'll give that a try, thanks.

[CopperTiggy]

Nope, no such luck.

It was set to pc105, so I changed it to pc104, but it hasn't rectified the problem.

(my keyboard does only have 104 keys...)

[jeremy1701]

Although the thread below doesn't solve your problem, it does talk about it, maybe it will help:

Thread

I don't want to use dead keys where you have to hit the apostrophe twice (or apostrophe-space) to get an apostrophe.

From reading the thread, it sounds you may have something wrong with your ~./Xmodmap file. Can you make accented e's real easy?

Jeremy

[CopperTiggy]

Í ćáń máké áććéńtéd évéŕýthíńg ŕéáĺlý éáśý....

:P

Just by hitting the apostrophe key once followed by the letter.

*goes off to read the thread*

Thanks,

[Heliax]

I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on an Acer 202T, which previously had 9.1 installed. Ever since then, I have had to press the quote key then space to get the quote to show. The weird thing is, I used to have this problem with Windows ME, which was the original OS on the laptop.

Today I fixed the problem, by simply changing the keyboard setting in the Mandrake "configure your computer" system. I changed it from "US Keyboard(International)" to "US Keyboard", and now all works well.

Hope this helps someone else...

[mattgold]

Can confirm that changing the keyboard type to "US keyboard" fixes this problem, had this occur in Mandriva 2007 Free. Very annoying.