I can't see any option in System Settings (KDE 4.2.2) to change the behavior of my numpad's point key to make it print a comma instead a point. My region and language settings are correctly set to es_ES.UTF-8, and the decimals ant thousands separators too.
It probably is a silly problem, but I swear I'm looking everywhere and don't see anything "illustrating".


Thanks and regards.

It has to do with your keyboard layout.

Hans wrote:It has to do with your keyboard layout.

I hadn't thought about that because I can write ñ, € or á, ü; so I thought my layout was correct; but I see there's some disagreement between Xorg: pc105, es; and KDE: pc 104, es.
I have changed KDE to use 105 keys layout without much hope and as previsible it hasn't had any effect.

This question may soung odd, but theres a special layout only to replace decimal comma instead point?


Tack

I just checked in KDE 3.5, and I get a point with the Spanish layout. I don't know if there's any good way to fix this, but two possible solutions are:
1. Change the xkb layout or create a new one.
2. Remap the key with xmodmap.

Number 2 is probably the easiest (but not the "cleanest") way. You find the keycode with the [font=Courier]xev[/font] command and do something like

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xmodmap -e 'keycode 91 = KP_Delete KP_Separator'

To make the change "permanent", you have to run this command when you log in. I don't know if newer KDE versions automatically runs xmodmap on ~/.Xmodmap, but you can always create a bash script in ~/.kde/Autostart (might be .kde4 instead of .kde). The script could look something like this:

~/.kde/Autostart/remap.sh

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#!/bin/bash
xmodmap -e 'keycode 91 = KP_Delete KP_Separator'

Don't forget to make the script executable ([font=Courier]chmod a+x filename[/font]).

Thanks a lot, Hans. Now it's late, but I'll try your instructions tomorrow.

Does it work? Did you find a proper keyboard layout? I usually try to avoid xmodmap.