How can I type Russian characters with accents in KDE? I use KDE and have enabled the Russian keyboard layout. This works fine except that I see no opportunity to add accents to vowels. Is this in fact possible? I wish to use them in applications such as Kate (which uses Unicode/UTF-8 for my document), to mark accented syllables to aid my pronunciation. The help for System Settings - Keyboard talks about levels of keys, but does not say what that means. I would have expected there to be a dead key for the accent, but cannot find one. If necessary I would be prepared to edit configuration files, but it seems to me unlikely that that would be necessary. I have my keyboard model set to generic 101-key PC,and my keyboard is a Dell model SK-8115, attached via USB to an Acer laptop. My Linux is Open Suse Leap 15.1 with the latest updates. ### Updates 2020-04-10: Though I feared it might be off-topic there, I have asked a duplicate in Russian SE: * <

For that purpose I've been using a different Russian layout, called "Russian (with Ukrainian-Belorussian layout)"; in Cinnamon's keyboard settings I had to tick a checkbox that shows less common layouts in the layout selection, but I'm confident those are also available on other DEs like KDE. That layout is mostly the same apart from some symbols, and you can make accents pressing Alt Gr + ё (well, the key that would produce ë on the standard layout) after the letter that you want to have an accent. (Normal ë is then done by pressing Alt Gr + e)

I only need accents when I add vocabulary in Anki, so I have both the standard layout and the Ukrainian-Belorussian layout in my list and switch between them according to my needs.