I have yet another solution, and it's a really squirrelly one. I did look at the other solutions posted here, but they didn't help in my case. I was also getting kicked back out to the kdm. So I wanted to see if this problem was affecting the whole system, or just KDE. The first thing I did was reboot my whole system (PCLinuxOS), and try to login through kdm again. It failed again. So, on a lark, I selected a GNOME session and successfully logged in. Everything seemed OK, but I don't want to use...
I just discovered something interesting. If I export SAL_ALTGR_COMPOSE=1 or SAL_NO_DEADKEYS=1 on the command line before launching oowriter, the ALTGR key works precisely as it is supposed to. I figured this out because it turns out (I was wrong about the problem being everywhere), thunderbird mail could compose characters with the ALTGR key. Now the only question I have is why this works on a different version of KDE/Linux when these variables do not appear to be set anywhere in the system (I d...
My issue may be related. I was able to use the Right Alt key to create accented characters until about a week or two ago. I know I was able to since I completed a Spanish class assignment using it. There were no problems. A few days ago, KDE was upgraded on my system, along with other updates, to version 3.5.5. Today, when I tried to use the accents, it did not work. I tried all different sorts of things to no avail. However, when I tried to do this on another Linux system still running KDE 3.5....