Text input with keyboard, via input methods
Rustom Mody
rustompmody at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 06:46:03 EST 2016
On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 10:21:35 AM UTC+5:30, Larry Hudson wrote:
> On 03/09/2016 11:54 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> [...]
> > In between these two extremes we have many possibilities
> > - ibus/gchar etc
> > - compose key
> > - alternate keyboard layouts
> >
> > Using all these levels judiciously seems to me a good idea...
> >
> FWIW -- in Mint Linux you can select the compose key with the following:
>
> Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->Options->Position of Compose Key
>
> then check the box(s) you want.
>
> For those unfamiliar with it, to use it you press your selected compose key followed by a
> sequence of characters (usually 2 but sometimes more).
>
> A couple examples--
> n~ gives ñ u" gives ü oo gives ° (degree sign)
> Here's a cute one: CCCP gives ☭ (hammer & sickle)
>
> This gives you (relatively) easy access to a large range of 'special' characters.
Can be more heavily parameterized with this
https://github.com/rrthomas/pointless-xcompose
[Note the uim install]
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