Arch Linux

EgidioCaprino

Member

Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 102

From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

Hi all,

I recently switched from Gnome to Deepin desktop environment and I currently miss these two functionalities:

- ability to insert emojis in the text I'm typing
- ability to insert accents in the text I'm typing

Do you know a way I can achieve the above in Deepin?

EDIT
In Gnome I was using the compose key for typing accents and a Gnome extension for entering Emojis.

Last edited by EgidioCaprino (2019-07-05 11:19:38)

EgidioCaprino

Member

Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 102

Re: From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

Up

WorMzy

Forum Moderator

From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 11,863

Website

Re: From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

Don't do that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ct#Bumping

---

Sakura:-
Mobo: MSI MAG X570S TORPEDO MAX // Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @4.9GHz // GFX: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT // RAM: 32GB (4x 8GB) Corsair DDR4 (@ 3000MHz) // Storage: 1x 3TB HDD, 6x 1TB SSD, 2x 120GB SSD, 1x 275GB M2 SSD

Making lemonade from lemons since 2015.

seth

Member

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,229

Re: From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

With your keyboard…?

The reason that you've not received an answer is that you've not at all explained how you even expect to enter this, whether your keyboard layout is off, you lack deadkeys, a compose key feature, a silly point and click input dialog…
It also matters *a lot* whether this is on wayland or xorg.

Also what have you done to fix this yourself? Did you read the keyboard config and deepin related wiki pages?

---

How to upload text · How to boot w/o GUI · Disable Windows Fast-Start! · Fix your xinitrc

EgidioCaprino

Member

Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 102

Re: From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

Hi seth,

Thank you for your reply. You're right. I just edited the first post with some details about how I was doing that on Gnome. Please let me know if you have any advice.

seth

Member

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,229

Re: From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

You've not specified the display server… for X11 see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … ompose_key
I'd also assume gnome extensions stand a good chance to work on deepin because the latter is just some gnome fork (at least on the desktop level, I understand that somebody figured it would be important to mix a gtk3 desktop shell w/ some qt5 tools because one can never have to maintain enough toolkits…)

---

How to upload text · How to boot w/o GUI · Disable Windows Fast-Start! · Fix your xinitrc

EgidioCaprino

Member

Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 102

Re: From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

Thank you Seth! I've managed to copy the same behaviour of the compose key in Gnome with the following command.

localectl --no-convert set-x11-keymap us "" "" compose:ralt

I'll look into Gnome extensions on Deepin for the Emoji selector.

c00ter

Member

From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

Posts: 395

Re: From Gnome to Deepin DE: emojis and accents

I understand that somebody figured it would be important to mix a gtk3 desktop shell w/ some qt5 tools because one can never have to maintain enough toolkits…)

But, hey, it's Shiny!

Last edited by c00ter (2019-07-05 21:10:03)

---

UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn