Changing what the tilde key does?

[OonaMistwalker]

I'm running Gimp 3.10.38 in Windows 11 on an HP Envy Laptop built for the US market. I use "International Keyboard" option in my operating system to type in other languages. I need to type French text into an image, but when I try to use the key that types the tilde ( the ~/ key. It's to the left of the 1 key), it changes the zoom of the image to 100%. How do I unbind this so it will type the characters on the ~/ key?

[rich2005]

(08-24-2024, 08:50 AM)OonaMistwalker Wrote: I'm running Gimp 3.10.38 in Windows 11 on an HP Envy Laptop built for the US market. I use "International Keyboard" option in my operating system to type in other languages. I need to type French text into an image, but when I try to use the key that types the tilde ( the ~/ key. It's to the left of the 1 key), it changes the zoom of the image to 100%. How do I unbind this so it will type the characters on the ~/ key?

I do have a US keyboard gathering dust  The tilde is above the grave accent (backtick) character.

What you can try is, Edit ->  Keyboard Shortcuts  Use zoom as the search term. Look for Revert Zoom entry which uses the grave accent and clear it with the backspace key to disable.

   

However, as far as I know, typing a ~ into a text layer should work. There are ways of entering characters with accents into a Gimp text layer using unicode entry codes, but that is another story.

[Krikor]

   

[rich2005]

With the text box active a key press should not bring up a zoom. It might be a Windows 11 thing, I do not know, I only have a Win10 VM

The International Keyboard option is similar to the linux compose key press a hot key + characters to get the required accent.

Great when it works, but in case not, the longer unicode entry shift-ctrl-u +code looks like this.

   

These are combining diacritical marks code 0300 to 0362 which apply to the preceding character.
You do need to put the text tool into simple entry mode, right-click in text box and goto input method.

[Ofnuts]

(08-24-2024, 08:50 AM)OonaMistwalker Wrote: I'm running Gimp 3.10.38 in Windows 11 on an HP Envy Laptop built for the US market. I use "International Keyboard" option in my operating system to type in other languages. I need to type French text into an image, but when I try to use the key that types the tilde ( the ~/ key. It's to the left of the 1 key), it changes the zoom of the image to 100%. How do I unbind this so it will type the characters on the ~/ key?

Hmm. On my AZERTY keyboard the ~ key is an AltGr one, because it s not on the standard AZERTY because it is not used in French typography (well, actually very rare, only in a few family names). So what kind of French are you tying that requires it?