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any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 8:11 pm
by lonesomepoint
I wanted to type a certain French word with an accent, but as far as I know, I don't have a character map application. Does MX include one, and I've just never noticed it? If not, that's okay: I looked up what's available, and am going to try gucharmap (Gnome).
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 8:58 pm
by JayM
gucharmap 1.9.0.2-1 is in the stable repo. Just search for "charmap" in MX Package Installer.
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 9:37 pm
by manyroads
lonesomepoint wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 8:11 pm
I wanted to type a certain French word with an accent, but as far as I know, I don't have a character map application. Does MX include one, and I've just never noticed it? If not, that's okay: I looked up what's available, and am going to try gucharmap (Gnome).
You can also enable compose character in your keyboard settings and then follow traditional compose character key strokes to get the Latin-8 characters you desire for French, German, Polish, whatever.... see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GtkComposeTable
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 4:58 am
by Eadwine Rose
What I do is this:
As root go to /etc/default/keyboard, in the line
add
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"
You can then use your assigned compose key when you want special characters. If you would like, for instance, é
press compose key, let it go, then press e and ' and voilà: é
Works for everything:
ę (e and ,)
ã (a and ~)
¥ (y and =)
€ (e and =)
Found this here a long time ago and now it seems to not be there *scratches head*... anyway.. this works.
http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/05/03/h ... -rebooting
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 7:07 am
by JayM
That is SO COOL, Eadwine Rose! Thanks!
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 7:27 am
by Eadwine Rose
You're welcome :)
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 3:39 pm
by Stevo
18.3 is going to include font-manager, which can show a character map as one of the features.
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 4:08 am
by Eadwine Rose
Is it maybe an idea to include (not right away, later versions maybe) what I posted above, and then somewhere in the prefs (maybe near the meta key) one can select the compose key?
Just a suggestion. :)
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:48 am
by mg979
@Eadwine Rose you can also do this, without need of modifying system files
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)
Re: any character map applications in MX?
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:03 am
by Eadwine Rose
And how and where and whatnot would one do this?