any character map applications in MX?

[Eadwine Rose]

Well... I did use that short command just earlier because for some reason things decided to stop working on this boot. And instead of rebooting I just used your command and hoppaaaaa. Sooo thanks

[oops]

18.3 is going to include font-manager, which can show a character map as one of the features.

... It is useful.

[Eadwine Rose]

How do you use it then, because I just started the thing and don't find how to make special characters like é and such with it.

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[manyroads]

It doesn't actually help with that problem very well @Eadwine.

[timkb4cq]

If you select Latin in the left pane you can find the character you want in the right pane. Double click on it and it appears in the test to copy pane so you can copy & paste it in.

This is OK for wingdings, but it's obviously better to set up the Compose key and learn the syntax for it if you're going to do more than just paste a special character occasionally.

[Eadwine Rose]

Yes indeed. By far not as handy as the point and click that kcharmap was.

[CrackMeUp]

Install gucharmap ...

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sudo apt install gucharmap

[malspa]

Yes indeed. By far not as handy as the point and click that kcharmap was.

I think you might mean kcharselect. I've used that and/or gucharmap in the past. Both are available from the Debian repos. These days, I simply use an online character map -- there are a few out there -- but I don't need to use one all that often.

[Eadwine Rose]

Oh yeah indeed.. yeah it was SO long ago haha.

gucharmap doesn't install anything extra, looks ok, thanks guys :)

[Eadwine Rose]

As root go to /etc/default/keyboard, in the line

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XKBOPTIONS=

add

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compose:lwin,

In my case I wanted to use the left win key, so: lwin.



The line now looks like:

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XKBOPTIONS="compose:lwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll"

Well.. what I did above apparently won't work anymore. I have no idea why this is, but I do not have the ability to insert special characters with lwin anymore with this line there (even tried rwin to see if lwin conflicts, no difference). I want to look for the solution to get this running automatically again. If not there then another way.

@Eadwine Rose you can also do this, without need of modifying system files

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setxkbmap -option compose:lwin

This works perfectly in a terminal once logged in, yes

or also

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setxkbmap -option -option compose:lwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll

It could be put in ~/.profile (or in the autostart commands of XFCE)

In ~/.profile, where would one put the line, and is there no more tinkering with formatting needed?

Content of my file:

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# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
	. "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

(or in the autostart commands of XFCE)]

Where would this be located? I do know about session and startup, appliction autostart. Do you mean put

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setxkbmap -option -option compose:lwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll

in there as a new entry? I know how to do that, just wondering is that is where you meant.