Typing accents on a US english keyboard?

You might explore the use of a compose key:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration#Configuring_compose_key

https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey

Another option is to type the Unicode for the special character on your keyboard:

Yet another option is to switch temporarily to a different keyboard layout, which gives you access to different key mappings:

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