Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread John Palmer
What about charmap(1), aka gucharmap and gnu-character-map ? Works for me, though tedious and slow, for most varieties of the Latin alphabet; but users who need to write continuous Norwegian (etc) text on English keyboards will not be happy . -- John Palmer Preston near Weymouth, Dorset, England

Re: [Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread Andrew
I can type ö by pressing AltGr+[, then letting go, then pressing 'o'. If you press AltGr+[ twice then it will show you just the combining character it'll add, eg: ¨. There's lots of other combining and otherwise useful characters around that area of the keyboard you can use with AltGr or AltGr

[Dorset] Help with foreign versions of letters

2020-05-23 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
Hi can anyone advise how I get foreign (Norwegian) variants of letters in UK linux? I need the o with two dots and the o with a line through it.  Of course it could be a limitation of my family history program (Gramps)  that it doesn't like  Alt 0248. Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Online,

Re: [Dorset] Clemantine Preventing Logout

2020-05-23 Thread PeterMerchant
On 23/05/2020 12:02, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:55:49 BST zir...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: Fair enough, I used to like Amarok as well when I used KDE. A few months ago I installed KDE and Amarok was one of the first things I went looking at, not impressed. I think KDE lasted jus

Re: [Dorset] Clemantine Preventing Logout

2020-05-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:55:49 BST zir...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: > Fair enough, I used to like Amarok as well when I used KDE. A few months > ago I installed KDE and Amarok was one of the first things I went > looking at, not impressed. I think KDE lasted just over a day before I > decided it wa

Re: [Dorset] Clemantine Preventing Logout

2020-05-23 Thread zircon
On 2020-05-23 09:20, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:15:24 BST zir...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: If you like Clementine as your media player have a look at Strawberry which is a fork of Clementine, it works for me. Tim, Actually one of the guys on the Kubuntu Forum recommended that

Re: [Dorset] Clemantine Preventing Logout

2020-05-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:15:24 BST zir...@xendistar.co.uk wrote: > If you like Clementine as your media player have a look at Strawberry > which is a fork of Clementine, it works for me. Tim, Actually one of the guys on the Kubuntu Forum recommended that and I gave it a try. It's OK, but it

Re: [Dorset] Clemantine Preventing Logout

2020-05-23 Thread zircon
On 2020-05-20 12:40, Terry Coles wrote: On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 11:43:50 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: It sounds like https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/6401 Yes. That is it exactly. First identified on 14th September and investigated back then, but on 7th April it was rep