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Written by Third spruce tree on the left on 2025-01-16 at 19:16

Challenges of a #Linux daily driver #19:

ok, spent my whole life in Windows and unfortunately wrapped a goodly portion of my brain around using those ALT keys that let you drop unicode characters willy nilly. Like ALT-0186 is the ° symbol.

Now I've got my compose key working and compose+o+o gives me °, is this what I'm stuck with or does anyone know of an app that lets me do compose+unicode value?

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Written by Maki on 2025-01-16 at 19:19

@tezoatlipoca Following the steps described here; https://superuser.com/questions/511472/how-to-compose-key-in-linux

Using CTRL+SHIFT+U0186 makes Ɔ for me on Debian running Openbox.

Your mileage may vary?

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Written by Third spruce tree on the left on 2025-01-16 at 20:07

@RandamuMaki sigh. Well it would also help if I had the right code. 176 not 186.

Yeah, don't know what I was searching but the ctrl+shift thing never surfaced until now.

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Written by Maki on 2025-01-16 at 20:10

@tezoatlipoca

U176 for me is Ŷ.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4795/how-do-i-type-the-degree-symbol-under-x11-using-a-default-english-keyboard-layo suggests that CTRL+SHIFT+U+B+0 is °, and for me it is.

That's U(nicode), B (as in beer), 0 (Zero).

It might help you as well?

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Written by Richard Holloway on 2025-01-16 at 19:27

@tezoatlipoca yup, https://askubuntu.com/questions/31258/how-can-i-type-a-unicode-character-for-example-em-dash#31283

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Written by George Ellenburg (he/him/his) on 2025-01-16 at 19:33

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to Wait, how did you get compose+o+o? I would KILL to compose+o+o. I used to use WinCompose back when I ran Windows and haven't been able to find anything similar on Linux.

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Written by Third spruce tree on the left on 2025-01-16 at 19:47

@gme Um, this could be distro or WM specific, but in Ubuntu .. which is .. gnome by default? there's this thing where you map a compose key (I use R-ALT) and there's a whole map of compose key symbols: https://cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/ubuntu-compose-key-combinations/

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Written by Third spruce tree on the left on 2025-01-16 at 19:48

@gme there is also a CTRL+SHIFT+u+Unicodehex thing that should work, I find its hit or miss

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