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How do you type special characters in 'nux? It's a question that's never arisen in my 2 years as a user, until now.
In Windows you do an Alt-[number] combination. What's the linux equivalent, if any? For example, I'd like to type the 'not' symbol that appears on the tilde key, but can't on my Dvorak layout.
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How do you type special characters in 'nux?
On my UK keyboard I get the accented e on the end of Cybercafé by holding down "Alt Gr" then tapping ";" then pressing "e".
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fantastic link, cheers vacant
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Bugger, it doesn't appear to work for me. Maybe it's because of my Dvorak layout :shock:
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Maybe you need to use another combination of keys.
Another solution solution would be to use something like this in your xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca(fr)"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
By pressing the 2 shift keys at the same time, I switch the keyboard: us <-> ca(fr). You could do the same and switch to a French/International dvorak keyboard to type the special characters.
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Snowman, you're a legend; I love hearing about things I never even knew existed, or had considered. I've always been aware of the XkbOptions in xorg.conf obviously, but I've never really thought about using them for anything.
Thank you
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Snowman, you're a legend; I love hearing about things I never even knew existed, or had considered. I've always been aware of the XkbOptions in xorg.conf obviously, but I've never really thought about using them for anything.
Thank you
For the XkbOptions trick, you'll need to thank codemac. I got that from him in another thread.
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For the XkbOptions trick, you'll need to thank codemac. I got that from him in another thread.
lol, right! I'll buy him a virtual beer the next time I see him
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You totally owe me that virtual beer.
XD
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Just to mention it here: Some toolkits have their own input methods. ALL gtk2
applications support:
SHIFT+CTRL keep holding while typing the Hexcode repraesentation of your chars:
Ôá etc
also works in urxvt. For the more fancy style you prolly wanna test scim and friends.
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If you are using garnome, it is in it.
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