Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

[gfp]

Hi Luis,

thanks very much. You saved me a lot of time.


Now after your help in saying to install ibus, which I did,
it helped. I can use it now.

I also installed the Gnome characters app
but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately.

Gottfried



Am 05.01.25 um 15:57 schrieb Luis Felipe:

I had the ancient greek spelling checker in Libreoffice installed already, but it didn´t work.

Hi Gottfried,

On 5/01/25 13:15, gfp wrote:

Hi Guix,

Guix System, installing MATE desktop
does not include
mate-character map.

I used this earlier when I have ubuntu intalled.

Guix doesn´t include this application.
Does somebody know why?

I don't know, but

I would use it for ancient greek letters
to pick some letters which I can´t create.

Maybe you could use ibus? See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/689826/input-methods-for-anceint-greek-and-other-diacritic-heavy-languages

1. Ctrl+Shift+U
2. 1F87
3. Enter

Also, I don't know Greek, but using ibus you can also insert any UNICODE characters with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+U. For example, to insert ᾇ (Greek small letter alpha with dasia and perispomeni and ipogegrammeni, whose UNICODE is 1F87): Finally, even though you're not using GNOME, you could install the GNOME Characters app (https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/gnome-characters/), which I allows you to search and copy any UNICODE character.

Hope that helps.

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