Hi all,

I recently made a fresh install of Kubuntu Natty and since then I have a problem with my keyboard (with previous versions of kubuntu, it just worked). I have a german keyboard (qwertz with öäüß keys near the return key). They are working fine.

My system language is set to Brazilian Portuguese (PT-Br). I am able to write almost all the characters that I need (for example, ã à ê é), but I am unable to write a cedilha (a c with a little hook under it). I used to had this letter by pressing an apostrophe and then a c. If I do this now, I get ć.

I tryed changing my System Settings > Input devices > Layouts and changing the layout variants, but was unable to get a cedilha (and some other combinations, like ã, would stop working). It is now set to german layout, standard variant.

Thanks for the help,
Rogério

This character is certainly present in the French keyboard where it is in the position of 9 on a US/UK keyboard. Have you tried Alt-Gr c or a similar combination?

john_hudson wrote:This character is certainly present in the French keyboard where it is in the position of 9 on a US/UK keyboard. Have you tried Alt-Gr c or a similar combination?

Thanks for the reply. But it does not solve my problem. Alt-Gr c produces ¢ and Shift Alt-Gr produces ©.

I finally solved it, here is the solution for people with this same problem:

add the following line

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 export QT_IM_MODULE="cedilla"

to the /etc/enviroment file (you have to do this as root). Then restart your X. Now the combination apostrophe c gives me ç (and apostrophe shift c gives Ç), instead of the accented c.

You could also have added an executable script with that same content into ~/.kde4/env/ which would have had the same effect - and no root access required.

Didn't work for me, running kde 4.8 on Archlinux.

On some distributions, ~/.kde/ is used instead of ~/.kde4/

thanks, but I put it in /etc/environment and when I open up konsole and type `echo $QT_IM_MODULE`, it says 'cedilla'.
I've set GTK_IM_MODULE as well in /etc/environment and GTK applications (even when running atop KDE) picked it up.

Sure, /etc/environment will work too, just mentioning a solution for those people who don't want to modify system wide files.

Oh. But the problem persists. What should I look for in qt or kde builds from archlinux, in order to debug this?

I am not sure of the steps required to debug input method related issues unfortunately. First, I would make sure your desired input method is indeed being loaded as you are requesting.