How do you add umlauts in typing German and 'accents' in typing French?

I use the "US International Keyboard" layout which is easier than typing Alt + a code. For example, to type an accent aigu you type a single quotation mark -- and nothing appears --- but then you type the letter you want to have the accent ..... so i type ' and then e .... and it comes out as é .

For an umlaut, it's the same thing, but with the double quote

If you want to type a real quotation mark, you type that character and then the space bar. It's rather awkward at first but one soon becomes accustomed, and I can type in French or German much more quickly than if i had to type in codes that took Alt + several numbers.

"US International Keyboard" works in Windows & Mac and I think some versions of Linux. You can probably find out in a Linux forum. i bet people have asked about it before, so do a search.

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