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fan_of_LTS , there are at least two reliable Unicode character-picker apps for Linux:

gucharmap (in the repositories; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Character_Map )
kcharselect for KDE (also in the repositories; see https://apps.kde.org/kcharselect/ )

I don't need all the special ...

@dolphin_oracle, thanks, but gnome-characters is overpowered for this job. I wrote my own simple picker for a small set of selected characters years ago and still use it. Please see https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2019-03-24.html

OK, found the program:
https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.EmojiChooser.html
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/bl ... ichooser.c

Unfortunately this C program doesn't just point to a font library that could be replaced with another.

Well, I'm not the first to think the Ctrl+; program code would also be good for special characters. See
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3490
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6231

It doesn't look like the GTK folk have done anything with the idea in the past 2 years, which ...

dolphin_oracle , a GTK built-in? Wow, I didn't think there was such a thing! I naively thought that a toolkit is a toolkit, not a finished app... I've searched the GTK repository and will chase the code down there. I didn't want an emoji selector, I wanted to modify the Ctrl+; program so it pointed ...

@siamhie, QSI below. I didn't think the question required that, sorry.
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-38-amd64 [6.1.147-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-38-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info ...

In Mousepad and some other GTK apps*, if I enter Ctrl+; or Ctrl+. I get a popup window pointing to the cursor position, with a selection of emojis and symbols in black and white. If I click on one of the emojis or symbols it gets pasted at the cursor position and the popup disappears.

I suspect ...

FullScale4Me operadude , many thanks, I hadn't seen that respin before. I'm happy with the standard ISO and happy to uninstall what I don't use or will replace (like Firefox and Thunderbird, and LibreOffice bits other than Writer and Impress). But my list of to-be-installed items is fairly long and ...

Four computers in our household have been running MX (Xfce) since MX19: two mini-desktops from Dell and two low-spec Asus laptops. We have no complaints, the OS is great and I really like MX Tools.

Recently I thought I'd try a different, more lightweight OS on the laptop that's really a netbook ...

My wife and I are Boomers (79 and 80 yrs) and longtime Linux users. I tried to interest some other local Linux users recently in forming a "rescue a PC" service for people planning to junk their Win 7 (yep) or Win 10 computer after they'd bought the latest and shiniest Win 11 model. The rescued PC ...