FC16 Runlevel 3 input method

[danespen]

I´ve just installed FC16. I use runlevel 3 and Fvwm.
When I type a single quote I get nothing until I hit the next key. Then I get a character with a mark over it.

Even when I hit the single quote twice I get a character that is not really a quote.

What tool do I use to turn this off? I tried setting the LANG to just en-US and that just caused rxvt to complain about invalid characters.

[smr54]

What about en_US.UTF-8

[danespen]

That´s the LANG I started out with and have reverted back to.

[Mariusz W]

Originally Posted by danespen

I´ve just installed FC16. I use runlevel 3 and Fvwm.
When I type a single quote I get nothing until I hit the next key. Then I get a character with a mark over it.

Even when I hit the single quote twice I get a character that is not really a quote.

What tool do I use to turn this off? I tried setting the LANG to just en-US and that just caused rxvt to complain about invalid characters.

I think you may have selected the so called 'US International' keyboard layout when installing Fedora. The latter was designed by a Brazilian, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who worked for Connectiva (that merged with Mandrake to become Mandriva). The keymap file is called us-accentos.map.gz, and can be found in the directory /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty.

The brainless dummie who called that keyboard layout 'US International' and offered it to an unsuspecting public in the Fedora installer, should be punished by being hanged from the tallest tree...

The way to free oneself from the pain called 'US International' is to modify the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file so that the line containing LAYOUT reads:

LAYOUT="us"

[danespen]

I´m thinking you are on the right trail.
During install US/int seemed to be the only choice.
I looked in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and it looked like this:

KEYTABLE="us-acentos"
MODEL="pc105"
LAYOUT="us"
VARIANT=¨intl¨

I deleted the variant line but that didn´t help. just noticed the keytable line. I guess I´ll try just plain ¨us¨. back shortly.

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Nope, still no joy.

Now my keyboard looks like this:

KEYTABLE="us"
MODEL="pc105"
LAYOUT="us"

but I still have to type quote twice and it doesn´t appear to be a real quote.

There must be some other file involved. Is there a GUI to configure this? Maybe it will hit everything I need to change.