So far so good apart from one small thing. I type in a language that requires plenty of accents (é or á or è for example). I am using the alternative character key which is set in Gnome settings to do this and this works great,
However, for some reason when I type a character that is a pre-cursor for a special character, it will always appear. This is endlessly annoying when I am just trying to use punctuation.
Apologies if this is a stupid question and easily answered but I can´t find relevant information on this. I have hopefully attached screenshots illustrating my issue.
Edit: how do you enter the backtick character whith it being taken as a meta character?
If our keyboard type is with dead keys, you can type in the sequence "`a" and get "à".
To type in "`a" you have to type in "` a" ("`" space "a"). Usually the dead keays are
` ' " ~
In my keyboard I have no dead keys, but I have defined a compose key, so to enter “à” I hit the compose key and type “`a”.
An example of a keyboard with dead keys is the US international variation.
You can switch to a keyboard type with no dead keys. You do that in the Settings->Keyboard where you can add additional keyboard. Without knowing which one you are currently using, that is all I can say.
