Re: Gnome's Character Map

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From: Juerd
Subject: Re: Gnome's Character Map
Date: 20:36 on 14 Dec 2006

Robert Rothenberg skribis 2006-12-14 20:01 (+0000):
> I'm using a mere UK or US keyboard to type in exotic Roman characters used
> for non-English languages.
> Fine, there's Gnome's Character Map

You could try the Multy_key functionality from Xkb. I have no idea in
what hateful way you can graphically configure this in Gnome, but for me
the following command suffices:

    xmodmap -e 'keycode 117 = Multi_key'

This maps the windows "menu" key to the Multi_key, after which I can
easily compose characters like ł, by guessing the things that the
character looks like. In this case, I hit:

    multi / l

«æþàéöûñ€¢£¥łđð»
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- Gnome's Character Map Robert Rothenberg 20:01 on 14 Dec 2006
  - Re: Gnome's Character Map Juerd 20:36 on 14 Dec 2006
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  - Re: Gnome's Character Map peter (Peter da Silva) 20:45 on 14 Dec 2006
  - OT [no hate]: entering Unicode chars (was: Gnome's Character Map) A. Pagaltzis 23:32 on 14 Dec 2006
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  - H.Merijn Brand 14:57 on 15 Dec 2006
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- H.Merijn Brand 14:55 on 15 Dec 2006

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