any character map applications in MX?

[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).

[JayM]

gucharmap 1.9.0.2-1 is in the stable repo. Just search for "charmap" in MX Package Installer.

[manyroads]

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

[Eadwine Rose]

What I do is this:



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"

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

[JayM]

That is SO COOL, Eadwine Rose! Thanks!

[Eadwine Rose]

You're welcome :)

[Stevo]

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

[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. :)

[mg979]

@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)

[Eadwine Rose]

And how and where and whatnot would one do this?