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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).

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:26 am I tried to find that actually back when.. no luck then.

When I found this modkeymajiggie I was very happy about it and stuck with it.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:55 am So I would have to do this every time I log in. Ehh.. nope. It's nice, but I'd rather do it my way and have things set up from the getgo without fiddling

Come to think of it, it MIGHT be possible to put this in session and startup though, that would do the same thing, but.. to each their own solution.

Stevo wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 3:39 pm 18.3 is going to include font-manager, which can show a character map as one of the features.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:19 pm Yes indeed. By far not as handy as the point and click that kcharmap was.

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"

mg979 wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:48 am @Eadwine Rose you can also do this, without need of modifying system files

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setxkbmap -option compose:lwin

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)

# ~/.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)]

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