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dilch

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Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 63

ü ö ä "umlaute"

hi, how can i get the german umlaute ä ö ü and such letters for my system? which package do i have to install?

koral

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From: UK

Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 58

Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

This could be done by adding, or changing the line in your autostart.sh.
For this i suppose you know german keyboard layout

Right Click - Preferences - Openbox Config- Edit autostart.sh

Find a line:

# Set-up keyboard maps and sytem tray switcher
# tip - quickly toggle between keyboard maps by holding both shift keys!
setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us &

Make sure to uncomment last line by removing # in the begining.
Then just add de at the end, an it will look like:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,de &

Then log off and on again. Or just run in terminal:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,de &

That's it! On the next boot you will have it automaticaly.

Last edited by koral (2009-08-26 21:12:30)

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dilch

#! Member

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 63

Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

This could be done by adding, or changing the line in your autostart.sh.
For this i suppose you know german keyboard layout

Right Click - Preferences - Openbox Config- Edit autostart.sh

Find a line:

# Set-up keyboard maps and sytem tray switcher
# tip - quickly toggle between keyboard maps by holding both shift keys!
setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us &

Make sure to uncomment last line by removing # in the begining.
Then just add de at the end, an it will look like:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,de &

Then log off and on again. Or just run in terminal:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,de &

That's it! On the next boot you will have it automaticaly.

perhaps i misunderstood something.

after removing # so it isnt longer uncomment, mz german keyboard stopped working. but np, this wasnt what i meant.

i had the german keyboard from installation, what mz problem is, is the following, perhaps i wrote it down bad [terrible english]

i have the letters on my keyboard, put conky and my filebrowser dont show&use them, using other nonusualletters

do i need a font or a package to fix it [ARGH dont find the questionletter on the uskeyboard]

iggykoopa

Script Master

Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 1,486

Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

here is what I found on another forum:
What operating system are you using, and what keyboard layout (software) are you using with the UK keyboard? In Ubuntu, when you use the International layouts, the double quote key gets used to make the umlaut -- i.e. hitting the key and then the u key produced ü -- and one must hit AltGr + " to get the double quotes....

I haven't tested it out though.

edit: I realize now that I misread your post also, so you are able to type the ü but it doesn't display in conky correctly? Do you have override_utf8_locale set in your conkyrc?

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From: Osnabrück - DE

Registered: 2009-01-09

Posts: 649

Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

perhaps i misunderstood something.

after removing # so it isnt longer uncomment, mz german keyboard stopped working. but np, this wasnt what i meant.

i had the german keyboard from installation, what mz problem is, is the following, perhaps i wrote it down bad [terrible english]

i have the letters on my keyboard, put conky and my filebrowser dont show&use them, using other nonusualletters

do i need a font or a package to fix it [ARGH dont find the questionletter on the uskeyboard]

Hallo Dilch!

Ich habe leichte Verständnischwierigkeiten...

Kannst du das nochmal in deutsch posten ??? Dann kann ich schauen, ob mir was zu deinem Problem einfällt...

Cyber

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From: Augsburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-08-27

Posts: 6

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Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

Just add this to:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Keyboard0"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

machinebacon

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From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,825

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Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

Hallo Dilch,

in conky hatte ich das selbe Problem, da nicht jede Schriftart Umlaute darstellen konnte. Im Filebrowser kann es daran liegen, dass die "filename encoding" geaendert werden muss. Mir geht es bei nicht installierten asiatischen Schriften dann genauso - es werden nur wirre Sonderzeichen dargestellt.
Ich tippe mal, man muss die passende deutsche Locale installieren (ueber Synaptic oder package manager) Ohne Gewaehr, da ich es nicht pruefen kann, waeren das die Pakete language-pack-de und language-support-de. Gib im Synaptic mal ins Suchfeld "german" ein.

I think you first have to install the german language support in synaptic and use another font in conky.rc
If the filenames are still not useable, check the filemanager -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced there is a field saying something like "filename encoding" - mine shows "UTF-8".
Just a guess, sorry.

Oh and yes, to get the german keyboard layour working, your autostart.sh should look something like:

# Set keyboard map if different than UK
# Uncomment one to enable, or define your own.
#setxkbmap us & # United States
# setxkbmap ca & # Canada
# setxkbmap fr & # Francais
# setxkbmap br & # Brazil
setxkbmap de & # Germany
# setxkbmap cz & # Czech Republic
# setxkbmap it & # Italy

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dilch

#! Member

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 63

Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

hallo, war lange zeit im urlaub. mich hat dann irgendwo in lissabon der schlag getroffen, natuerlich liegt es daran, dass die schriftart es nicht kann... (vermutlich, habe pc grade erst eingeschlaten)

hi, i had a long holiday, somewhere in lissabon, i realized, that of course, just the font used in conky don't has ä ö ü.( i think this is the problem, startet the pc just at the moment)

thx, i'm using another font, any suggestions, atm it's arial black but it has now ä ü ö

any update which changes the problem?

Last edited by dilch (2009-09-19 21:25:04)

machinebacon

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From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,825

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Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

any update which changes the problem?

you might go here

https://launchpad.net/~m-buck/+archive/conky

and add the deb and deb-src to your repositories (/etc/apt/sources.list), update with apt-get update and hope for upgrades i have finally given up the idea of having RSS feeds in conky using 'special' fonts

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dilch

#! Member

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 63

Re: ü ö ä "umlaute"

any update which changes the problem?

you might go here

https://launchpad.net/~m-buck/+archive/conky

and add the deb and deb-src to your repositories (/etc/apt/sources.list), update with apt-get update and hope for upgrades i have finally given up the idea of having RSS feeds in conky using 'special' fonts

really? isn't it just a font-problem?