Hi. I’ve re-installed EOS, this time with XFCE (i usually go with gnome). I can’t get my keyboard (us distribution) to type the letter Ñ. First, on keyboard configuration, my keyboard layout doesn’t change unless I delete my previous one (in the image, there I hace spanish and us, but I had to remove spanish for it to apply). But the important thing is that with this layout, if I press alt+;, i get this ¶ instead of my usual Ñ that I have in Windows and other EOS gnome installation.
Pressing tilde and the n results in ń. Now that you mention ~, I have a top left key that is [`~]. If i press SHIFT+[`~]+n, i get Ñ in mayus. If i want ñ i have to do it with caps activated, wich is rather inconvenient for fluent writing. There must be a way to have it with alt+;, or any other easier combination
I tried it on my own setup and it works as I expect:
Press SHIFT+tilde, release SHIFT and press n: ñ
Explanation:
As the tilde is in the SHIFT-position on the key, you need to press SHIFT to “reach” the tilde.
For the lowercase n you do not press the SHIFT.
Many diacritics can be produced on my keyboard (US with dead keys) in the same way:
ë (SHIFT + ", and e), and with a and u and i: ä, ü, ï
è (The tilde key without the SHIFT and e)
ê (SHIFT-6 and e)
Your solution seems like a good enough compromise, however I use this same keyboard in other PCs/SO in which I write ñ the way I describe so I have my muscle memory already trained and it feels weird to have to write it the other way just in my laptop’s EOS. My workmate in front of me has right now the same keyboard, EOS with gnome and he can write it that way. Very weird. Might go back to a gnome installation. Thanks for putting the time for trying yourself!
In my experience the method I explained should work on many DE’s, so it’s a transferable solution.
I tried it on XFCE and on Plasma.
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That helps others with the same issue to find the solution.
Ok, I truly feel like the most stupid guy in the planet right know. The layout works perfectly, the thing is, the ñ is typed with alt+n, not by alt+;. I knew this by muscule memory, but when I tried to rationalize it when configuring the layout in EOS, my brain went directly to the ; key (where the ñ is place in spanish keyboards).
So, in sumary:
Use english US international with dead keys by AltGr
You can type ñ with alt+n
You can type ñ with shift+`+n
And I’ll add SemLraug solution so this is more complete
