I had tried using the English (US, International with dead keys) keyboard layout, as I have in Mint. But the ALT key is not behaving as expected.

I would appreciate it if someone could give me a hand with this.

Thanks

It might help if you define what you mean by "the ALT key is not behaving as expected."

What's happening that shouldn't be happening, or what's not happening that should?

When I use Mint, with this keyb layout, I just hold down ALT while I hit the key where I want the accent/tilde. For instance, if I want to do the é, I just hold down ALT and hit the e. If I want the ñ, I do the same but I hit the n.
This is done while my OS's language is English.
Unfortunately when I am in Deepin, the only time this works is when I switch the OS's language to Spanish. Which is not as convenient.
I am hoping there is a work around.

Guess the program you are using may not support it??

Some ideas may still work here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key


Wonder if the hold alt key or ctrl key plus some three number entry would work? How many times a day do you need some accented letter?

alt 666 is this Ü for example.

Not many, not enough to replace my physical keyboard, nor switch my OS's language to Spanish. That's why just using the English (US, International with dead keys) keyboard layout was good enough, in Mint and Ubuntu that is.

It would be good to know those 3-letter codes though. More alternatives is better than too few.
So, where can I see these codes?

Thanks

I looked into finding those 3-letter codes, but it seems they are only for Windows
Like ALT + 130 = é

I'll test it later. Seems to me it is part of the keymap.

Hi,

Unicode for lower case e with an acute is U+00E9.
So try:

Ctrl-Shift-u e9 Enter


é

works for me.


Evo2.

P.S. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicod...Unix_variants)
for more info.

Thanks for that Evo2, I wish it was working for me.
I just tried your suggestion with both the regular English keyboard layout, and the English (US, International with dead keys) keyboard layout. Both yielded the same:

ue9

This is with either Left or Right Ctrl and Shift keys.
Basically I just hold down both Ctrl and Shift while I hit u. But then it just enters the letter "u".

So far the English (US, International with dead keys) keyboard layout works, but only for so long. Then I have to either logout and login again, or reboot.

Hi,
Were you using a GTK app?

Hmm, quick question: why are you using Deepin? It seems to be giving you lots of trouble and the forum here doesn't seem to have many users.

Evo2.

Excuse my ignorance, but how do I identify a GTK app?


I am still in the "trying period" with Deepin.
Mint was my main distro for the past 2 or 3 years, but now I was feeling like trying something new. Deepin's looks caught my attention.
It's been about 2 weeks so far. I do like many things, but so far it feels like at the end of the day I also do not like just as many. What's worse, some of these things I do not like happen to be important enough to be a deal-breaker. Although I am pretty close to call it a day, I am not quite there yet. I want to have the peace of mind that I gave it a fair try.
I still have Mint installed in a different drive, so going back will be very easy.

Hi,
Try
If <app-name> uses gtk you should get something like:
Note that this won't work if the app has compiled gtk libs directly into it. Eg
If it's not GTK, then have a look at that wikipida link from my earlier post.

Ok, understood. Thanks for explaining.

Cheers,

Nick.

Opps, bad example. google-chrome-stable is a wrapper shell script.

Evo2.

My experience:
Ctrl-Shift-u e9 <enter>
é
works on GTK apps (including e.g. Firefox), but not in the terminal or Qt apps.

But on my keyboard, I can also use ' (that's a special accent key, not the single quote key) and e.

I tried Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi, Noty, and LibreOffice Writer without success.
In Firefox it's even worse because the moment I press ALT it brings down the menu.
Thanks a million for helping guys!

Oh well, we cannot say we did not try! Maybe it's time to return to Mint.