James Collier's Blog

For quite some time, I have been trying to figure out how to make the ã on a spanish laptop keyboard running Kubuntu. None of the normal key combinations would do it.

Of course on a normal keyboard, you can generate the ã using the combination “alt + 227″ using the number keys on the number pad, but this doesn’t help for a laptop keyboard.

I saw this same question on a lot of forums and none of them had an answer that worked. So after a lot of time trying, I have found that by pressing the altGR key + ¡ (the key with the ¿ ¡ next to the backspace key) and then pressing the ‘a’ key, the ã symbol will appear.

so again, that is altGR + ¡ followed by the ‘a’ key.  (The upside down exclamation point.  Not the lower case i)

And of course the ô can be generated by pressing the ^ followed by the ‘o’ key.

I discovered this just by playing with key combinations using the altGR key.