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Questions tagged [german]

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How to get German QWERTY on Windows?

Well I'm used to having the world standard keyboard which is qwerty and not qwertz... But on Windows I can't find the choice for German input which would be qwerty, not qwertz. In Linux there was German input with qwerty so it was fun. I believe it…
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Adobe Reader - What is the shortcut to rotate clockwise?

Win 7 64 bit Adobe Reader XI with shortcuts enabled (see Options Menu - General) German keyboard! (and of course a localized OS and so forth) Official shortcut list by Adobe: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keyboard-shortcuts.html The…
henry
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us keyboard, german layout - special character < and >

i currently have an american keyboard with the corrsponding us layout (it is the surface type cover btw). As I am used to the german layout i changed the layout settings to german under win8.1. This works fine except for one little thing: The < and…
newBee
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On Windows 7, how can I assign languages (German/English) to user accounts?

I would like to have two user accounts on my laptop: one for a German speaker and one for an English speaker. Are language packs far enough advanced now that I can just: download a Germany language pack install it assign a user account to it so…
Edward Tanguay
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Activating/using the dead key “^” with the German keyboard layout

I'm using a German keyboard layout on Ubuntu. I always write LaTeX mathematical formula with the Kile editor and the exponent key ^ is not active there. I have to copy-paste it from somewhere else and this is really annoying. The Kate editor also…
physiker
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How to install Dvorak Type 2 (ii) German on Ubuntu using Gnome

Currently I am using standard Dvorak on Ubuntu 13.10 and Gnome 3.10. Unfortunately, writing Umlauts (ä,ö,ü) in German requires me to switch to QWERTY/QWERTZ frequently or forces me to not write those umlauts (which looks strange to German native…
Peter Lustig
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Vim switch y and z

Is there a way to teach vim to switch usage of y and z? So for example yy would save a file, ya would toggle etc.. This would be much more usable with my German keyboard layout. What other technique could I use to cope with the problem of…
Jasper
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How to make caps lock only work with letters (on a German keyboard)

I feel like I've gone mad :) For 30 years as an IT admin and developer, when I've hit caps-lock it only shifted the letters (so that if I hit the number 1, I still got a number one). Since migrating to Windows 10, when I hit caps-lock, it shifts the…
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MSKLC Layouts only apply to text intput, not in applications

I tried to make myself a German QWERTY layout by just switching the z and y key on my keyboard and creating a fitting layout with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout creator since there is no native support. That works just fine for text input, but not in…
lokus
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stray comma with cut paste on notepad++ under wine, ubuntu/gnome

I have ubuntu 16.04 with gnome and a German QWERTZ keyboard. I like notepad++ so installed it under wine. It works very well except for one absurd quirk. When I delete/copy with "shift"delete" it does indeed copy the selected text into the paste…
Francis Cagney
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How can I type Umlaut characters in a Putty session

I am trying to type some German characters in my putty session. I am able to type it on notepad or other editors. asdƲas But when I try to paste the above text on my Putty session, nothing happens (i.e. nothing gets echoed). My Putty…
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How to set mergefield to show long date format?

How can I make Word 2012 display German date format in mail merge? { DATE \a "dd.MM.yy" \ * MERGEFIELD } returns 15.02.2012 for today, 15. Februar 2013 however is what I want.
mcbetz
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How to make caps lock key work only for alphabets (in German keyboard on windows)?

When the input keyboard layout is german in Windows 10, and the caps lock is on, then the whole keyboard behaves like the shift key is locked. This causes it to type symbols instead of numbers when caps lock is on.
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Insert method - activation and deactivation on German Keyboards

Dear Stack Exchange community, I have a German keyboard on my laptop since I bought my laptop in Germany, it has Windows 10 on it and the its name is "hp envy laptop 17-cg1xxx". I find the german layout very handy for almost everything, except when…
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How to stop Libreoffice (German) from replacing three dots "..." by the three-dots-character "…"?

I updated not too long ago. In the previous installed version I had turned this off. In the version installed now I can't find the optionbox. ): Version: 5.3.0.3 (x64) BS-Version: Windows 6.1; UI-Render: Standard; Layout-Engine: neu; Gebietsschema:…
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