4/29/2014 How to: c cedilla on US-International Keyboard in Fedora 10 - FedoraForum.

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Use US international layout.
C - cedilla is available on the US international keyboard layout but it is not very easy to find
On the "USA alternative international keyboard (former us_intl)" most accented characters are formed by hitting a punctuation mark followed by a letter.
for example
(I will also name the result in case it does not render correctly)
`a = > a-grave
'e = > e-acute
^o = > o-circumflex (Not ctrl-o, but shift-6 o on a US keyboard)
"u = > u-umlaut
~n = > n-tilda
Then there are the codes that require you to use the RIGHT Alt key
Right-Alt-e Euro
Right-Alt-5 Euro
Right-Alt-,c lower case c cedilla (Right-alt-comma then c)
Right-Alt-,C Upper case c cedilla
If, however you use the "US international (Altgr Dead Keys)" layout
then c-cedilla is just right-alt comma
I think the "US international (Altgr Dead Keys)" may have a few more keys useful for western europeans (I couldn' t find the British Pound () or German double-ess ()
on the "former us_intl" layout but on the "Altgr dead keys" layout they are where you would expect them to be - right-alt-$ () and right-alt-s ().)
However I don't find the positions of the other accented keys particularly easy to remember so I normally use the former us_intl layout for writing in French and the
regular USA layout for everything else.
To change or add layouts in Gnome go to System | Preferences | Keyboard and select the layouts tab. You can add as many countries and variants as you wish - I now
have the US layout with the three variants mentioned above.
If you click on Layout Options you can select the keys you use to change layouts - I use the two shift keys pressed simultaneously, but there are several other
possibilities.
Finally when you are done with that dialog you can right-click on the bar at the top of the gnome window and select "Add To Panel" . You will find an item in the drop
down list named "Keyboard indicator". Mine displays USA, USA2 or USA3 depending which variant I have selected and I can cycle through the variants by clicking on the
indicator or hitting the shift keys.
I'm not expecting you to undo the work you have already done especially if you have a system that works for you but try this next time you install a system. I have
used the same technique since I switched my main machine from Windows to Fedora 7 and it has always worked right through to my current installation of Fedora 11
Finally - a warning for noobs: If you read this and want to test all the possibilities of every key be careful with the function keys. Hit ctrl-alt-F2 and you will be taken to a
black screen with a text mode login prompt and no way of getting to your browser to find out what to do next. If this happens just hit ctrl-alt-F1 and your desktop should
re-appear (Use the LEFT alt key for this)