On 02/09/17 04:07 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > [...] I have never quite mastered how to get random > Unicode characters from a keyboard on a Linux desktop. I've allways been > able to switch keyboards, and I can do French (and some other) accents > using dead keys. But I've never been able to duplicate the Windows trick > of (for instance) ALT-0128 to get the Euro symbol. > > Most keyboards these days, in addition to Control keys, have a pair each > Windows and Alt keys. On my KDE desktop the Windows key brings up the > applications menu - fine. But if I look at > /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose I see references to a > <Multi_key>that would allow me to combine keystrokes to make ligatures > (such as combining "R" and "=" to make the Rupee symbol. I don' t see a > key marked "multi key" and I haven't found the ability to do these > combined characters. > > In the KDE keyboard settings there is mention of mapping a <Meta> key to > one of the low-row keyboard keys ... but isn't that an EMACS thing? And > what is a <Hyper> key? >
In GNOME, the trick is called the Compose key. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialchars.html.en You set a compose key in the GNOME settings (I like to set it as CapsLock personally), and hit that key and then a combination of other characters to get special characters. I haven't done this in KDE before, but a quick web search suggests that it might also be called the Compose Key in KDE: https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey HTH Blaise --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk