Comment on The inconsistent naming for insert row/columns in the German MS Office
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoCommenting lines works out of the box on qwerty, whaat . And for the Umlauts i have it set to using the dead key layout because it is tkl and has no right alt key. And I didn’t know that you could emulate alt gr with alt+space. Thanks!
zeropublix@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m on Mac so for umlaut I can just hold the vocal and pick the umlaut version of it. Similar to mobile devices
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I use Macos/linux at home and win at work. And all with the same keyboard, because it has a dedicated macOS and win/normal mode. And yeah, the us intl. keyboard works across win/Linux, but I dislike having the hyphens key as a dead key so i only really use it at work where I can’t skip umlauts. In private I don’t really need them and should the day come I’ll copy them from ddg or something.
JaxNakamura@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that sucks. You can have the best of both worlds in Linux by using the US keyboard with the “English (intl., with AltGr dead keys)” keyboard variant. This way, all your qwerty keys will work normally, but you can tell it a key combination is coming up by tapping AltGr. So you can for instance type <AltGr> + <"> + <u> to make ü or <AltGr> + <s> + <s> for ß. If I remember correctly, there is a way to make Windows do the same.
And in KDE at least, you can use any key you like to perform the function of AltGr. I suppose other DE’s can do the same.
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Smart. I’ve always wondered what it does. does it work with the alt + space shortcut for alt gr if I’m missing altgr or any right alt on my keyboard ?