any character map applications in MX?
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any character map applications in MX?
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?
gucharmap 1.9.0.2-1 is in the stable repo. Just search for "charmap" in MX Package Installer.
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
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/GtkComposeTablelonesomepoint 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).
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
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:
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
As root go to /etc/default/keyboard, in the line
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XKBOPTIONS=
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compose: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
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
That is SO COOL, Eadwine Rose! Thanks!
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
You're welcome :)
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
18.3 is going to include font-manager, which can show a character map as one of the features.
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
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. :)
Just a suggestion. :)
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
@Eadwine Rose you can also do this, without need of modifying system files
or also
It could be put in ~/.profile (or in the autostart commands of XFCE)
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setxkbmap -option compose:lwin
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setxkbmap -option -option compose:lwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll
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Re: any character map applications in MX?
And how and where and whatnot would one do this?
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