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Pedro Delfino
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I have two computers:

(i) My old one: DELL XPS 13, American Keyboard, running NixOS (Linux distribution) and GNOME Desktop Environment

(ii) My new one: A MacBook Air M1, American Keyboard, running Monterey 12.5 and Apple's default Desktop Environemnt.

It is important to highlight that, despite the American keyboards, I am Brazilian and I need Brazilian Portuguese input to type things such as "ç", "ã", "é", "à".

Right. Things used to work in my old Linux. There are just 3 options for input in Portuguese in GNOME. And only one for Brazilian Portuguese:

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My config was:

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To type things such as áã I need to press the following keys, first the orange one, then the blue one:

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Now, I would like to have exactly the same keybindings to provide the same character in a macOS. How to do it considering there are 4 options for Portuguese input (3 for Brazilian Portuguese) in my macOS machine?

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I have two computers:

(i) My old one: DELL XPS 13, American Keyboard, running NixOS (Linux distribution) and GNOME Desktop Environment

(ii) My new one: A MacBook Air M1, American Keyboard, running Monterey 12.5 and Apple's default Desktop Environemnt.

It is important to highlight that, despite the American keyboards, I am Brazilian and I need Brazilian Portuguese input to type things such as "ç", "ã", "é", "à".

Right. Things used to work in my old Linux. There are just 3 options for input in Portuguese in GNOME. And only one for Brazilian Portuguese:

enter image description here

My config was:

enter image description here

To type things such as á I need to press the following keys, first the orange one, then the blue one:

enter image description here

Now, I would like to have exactly the same keybindings to provide the same character in a macOS. How to do it considering there are 4 options for Portuguese input (3 for Brazilian Portuguese) in my macOS machine?

enter image description here

I have two computers:

(i) My old one: DELL XPS 13, American Keyboard, running NixOS (Linux distribution) and GNOME Desktop Environment

(ii) My new one: A MacBook Air M1, American Keyboard, running Monterey 12.5 and Apple's default Desktop Environemnt.

It is important to highlight that, despite the American keyboards, I am Brazilian and I need Brazilian Portuguese input to type things such as "ç", "ã", "é", "à".

Right. Things used to work in my old Linux. There are just 3 options for input in Portuguese in GNOME. And only one for Brazilian Portuguese:

enter image description here

My config was:

enter image description here

To type things such as ã I need to press the following keys, first the orange one, then the blue one:

enter image description here

Now, I would like to have exactly the same keybindings to provide the same character in a macOS. How to do it considering there are 4 options for Portuguese input (3 for Brazilian Portuguese) in my macOS machine?

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corrected description of character produced by pressing orange then blue keys
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Tom Gewecke
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I have two computers:

(i) My old one: DELL XPS 13, American Keyboard, running NixOS (Linux distribution) and GNOME Desktop Environment

(ii) My new one: A MacBook Air M1, American Keyboard, running Monterey 12.5 and Apple's default Desktop Environemnt.

It is important to highlight that, despite the American keyboards, I am Brazilian and I need Brazilian Portuguese input to type things such as "ç", "ã", "é", "à".

Right. Things used to work in my old Linux. There are just 3 options for input in Portuguese in GNOME. And only one for Brazilian Portuguese:

enter image description here

My config was:

enter image description here

To type things such as âá I need to press the following keys, first the orange one with shift pressed, then the blue one:

enter image description here

Now, I would like to have exactly the same keybindings to provide the same character in a macOS. How to do it considering there are 4 options for Portuguese input (3 for Brazilian Portuguese) in my macOS machine?

enter image description here

I have two computers:

(i) My old one: DELL XPS 13, American Keyboard, running NixOS (Linux distribution) and GNOME Desktop Environment

(ii) My new one: A MacBook Air M1, American Keyboard, running Monterey 12.5 and Apple's default Desktop Environemnt.

It is important to highlight that, despite the American keyboards, I am Brazilian and I need Brazilian Portuguese input to type things such as "ç", "ã", "é", "à".

Right. Things used to work in my old Linux. There are just 3 options for input in Portuguese in GNOME. And only one for Brazilian Portuguese:

enter image description here

My config was:

enter image description here

To type things such as â I need to press the following keys, first the orange one with shift pressed, then the blue one:

enter image description here

Now, I would like to have exactly the same keybindings to provide the same character in a macOS. How to do it considering there are 4 options for Portuguese input (3 for Brazilian Portuguese) in my macOS machine?

enter image description here

I have two computers:

(i) My old one: DELL XPS 13, American Keyboard, running NixOS (Linux distribution) and GNOME Desktop Environment

(ii) My new one: A MacBook Air M1, American Keyboard, running Monterey 12.5 and Apple's default Desktop Environemnt.

It is important to highlight that, despite the American keyboards, I am Brazilian and I need Brazilian Portuguese input to type things such as "ç", "ã", "é", "à".

Right. Things used to work in my old Linux. There are just 3 options for input in Portuguese in GNOME. And only one for Brazilian Portuguese:

enter image description here

My config was:

enter image description here

To type things such as á I need to press the following keys, first the orange one, then the blue one:

enter image description here

Now, I would like to have exactly the same keybindings to provide the same character in a macOS. How to do it considering there are 4 options for Portuguese input (3 for Brazilian Portuguese) in my macOS machine?

enter image description here

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Pedro Delfino
Pedro Delfino
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Assuming two notebooks have American keyboards, one of them is a GNOME and the other macOS, how to handle input in Brazilian Portuguese symmetrically?

I have two computers:

(i) My old one: DELL XPS 13, American Keyboard, running NixOS (Linux distribution) and GNOME Desktop Environment

(ii) My new one: A MacBook Air M1, American Keyboard, running Monterey 12.5 and Apple's default Desktop Environemnt.

It is important to highlight that, despite the American keyboards, I am Brazilian and I need Brazilian Portuguese input to type things such as "ç", "ã", "é", "à".

Right. Things used to work in my old Linux. There are just 3 options for input in Portuguese in GNOME. And only one for Brazilian Portuguese:

enter image description here

My config was:

enter image description here

To type things such as â I need to press the following keys, first the orange one with shift pressed, then the blue one:

enter image description here

Now, I would like to have exactly the same keybindings to provide the same character in a macOS. How to do it considering there are 4 options for Portuguese input (3 for Brazilian Portuguese) in my macOS machine?

enter image description here