Linux Compose Key
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Linux Compose Key
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Re: Linux Compose Key
#2What's even better about the compose key is you don't need to remember the order, either. The two keys in combination can be entered in either order. Oh, and most systems also set up the compose key so you don't need to hold it down while you press the other keys.
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#3Woah! Never knew about this! I find myself having to type foreign currencies all the time, so this will be way handy.
Great post!
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#4So, in Ubunu 9.04 you can pick a compose key by going to:
System | Preferences | Keyboard | Layout | Layout options | Compose key position
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#5The "Setting up more compose sequences" of http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard.html is also helpful. (I don't use those exact sequences, some of them make little sense to me... but it's nice to see a bunch of examples on how to create your own.) The compose key is one of my favorite underutilized features in Linux.
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#6In ubuntu I tried to add my own bindings to some unicode symbols with the help of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey.
But compositions I add doesn't seem to work for me.
Tried adding
: "♥" love # LOVE
Any help please?
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#7On Mac you can also just enable the character palette, then you can click on it in the topbar and have instant access to all unicode chars which you can then insert.
I don't think the compose key would be intuitive for me. I'd rather select from a palette.
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#8I still prefer the dead-keys way of doing this.
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#9> On Mac... I never did memorize all of these combinations...
Isn't that what Keyboard Viewer is for?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=mac/10.4/en/mh2...
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#10AllChars on a Windows laptop is a total lifesaver! I lost all my escape codes due to disuse and had to resort to the character viewer.