Deutsche Umlaute auf Amerikanische Tastaturen

zitiert von http://idolinux.blogspot.de/2009/02/linux-and-umlaut-typing.html

Here is how to type German umlauts, those accent dots above the vowels, in Linux. I did this with a US keyboard on Fedora 10, but it may also work on Redhat or CentOS.

• go to System → Preferences → Hardware → Keyboard on the Gnome menu
• select the Layouts tab
• click the Layout Options… button
• expand Compose key position
• check the box Right Ctrl is Compose or Right Win-key is Compose

• go to Control Center on the KDE menu
• select Regional & Accessibility
• check Keyboard Layouts
• choose model Generic 104-key PC
• choose layout U.S. English
• choose variant basic
• go to the Switching Options tab
• choose switching policy global
• go to the Xkb Options tab
• check Enable xkb options
• check Compose Key Position
• set Right Ctrl or Right Win-key as your Compose Key

The Right Ctrl or the Right Win key are now a „compose key“. With it you can compose symbols by combining two characters. The double-quote then the letter „a“ equals an umlaut-a (ä). Tap the compose key, then tap shift+quote for a double-quote, then tap the a-key.

• ä is compose, then „, then a
• ö is compose, then “, then o
• ü is compose, then „, then u
• ß is compose, then s, then s

There are plenty of symbols and accent marks for other languages as well, like grave/acute ticks (à á), circumflex (â), and many other symbols (æ þ µ ® € ¥ ₨ ½ ² ± ° ¿¡). So international!