Re: Entering Special Characters in new Gnome(Fedora 20)

2014-01-31 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 6 January 2014 16:03, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > I got to use a compose key in previous versions of gnome or using a > setxkbmap compose key when using other desktops. But in this machine using > gnome, I can't do what I used to do: > > > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help

Entering Special Characters in new Gnome(Fedora 20)

2014-01-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I got to use a compose key in previous versions of gnome or using a setxkbmap compose key when using other desktops. But in this machine using gnome, I can't do what I used to do: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.3/tips-specialchars.html.en#compose I want to do the same h

Re: how to type special characters?

2012-05-27 Thread JD
Sorry Mike, I replied to the wrong thread :( -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

Re: how to type special characters?

2012-05-27 Thread JD
On 05/22/2012 09:00 AM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type characters not on a keyboard by using the key but for the life of me I can not find it. e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be apostrophe i. I made pretty

Re: how to type special characters?

2012-05-23 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:15:54PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Mike Wright wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type > > characters not on a keyboard by using the key but for the life > > of me I can not find it. > > > > e.g. to type a Spanish

Re: how to type special characters?

2012-05-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type > characters not on a keyboard by using the key but for the life > of me I can not find it. > > e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be apostrophe i. You might find https://live.gno

Re: how to type special characters?

2012-05-22 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 05/22/2012 12:18 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > You need the USA-International keyboard layout (that's what I use). > Here on F14: System/Preferences/Keyboard and then you go to the Layouts > tab and change it there. Or, in a terminal (I hope it still works in F15 or F16): system-config-keyboard

Re: how to type special characters?

2012-05-22 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 05/22/2012 12:00 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be apostrophe i. You need the USA-International keyboard layout (that's what I use). Here on F14: System/Preferences/Keyboard and then you go to the Layouts tab and change it there. HTH, Jorge --

how to type special characters?

2012-05-22 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type characters not on a keyboard by using the key but for the life of me I can not find it. e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be apostrophe i. I made pretty heavy use of it for a while but it ceased work

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-21 Thread nomnex
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:47:51 -0700 Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:37:44 +0900 > nomnex wrote: > > Why is it better to use the bash_profile instead of ~/.bashrc. > There is a very good explanation for the reasons by Steven W. Orr in > the archives. > > http://lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:37 +0900, nomnex wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:51:17 -0700 > suvayu ali wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, nomnex wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430 > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > >> The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instr

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:37:44 +0900 nomnex wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:51:17 -0700 > suvayu ali wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, nomnex wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430 > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > >> The '&' is not part of the command. It's an ins

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-20 Thread nomnex
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:09:24 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Ah, that, and ^Z to send the app in the background, or $bg/$fg + > > PID. I have seen that, but I don't usually use the shell to launch > > the applications. so, the '&' part is superfluous when I pass the > > command in my bashrc

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-20 Thread nomnex
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:51:17 -0700 suvayu ali wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, nomnex wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the > >> Shell to run the command in the background. See

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-17 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, nomnex wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the Shell >> to run the command in the background. See any beginner's guide to any >> Unix/Linux shell (sh, csh, bash, k

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/16/2011 09:46 PM, nomnex wrote: > the '&' part is superfluous when I pass the command in > my bashrc file, I guess. Not if you ever want to get a prompt it isn't. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:46 +0900, nomnex wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the Shell > > to run the command in the background. See any beginner's guide to any > > Unix/Linux shell (sh, csh, ba

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-17 Thread JB
nomnex gmail.com> writes: > ... > Could somebody help me setting the compose key on Fedora LXDE 13. > I probably have to edit a text file. Which one, how, and its location > would help. Thanks > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Change_keyboard_layouts JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: > so, the '&' part is superfluous when I pass the command in > my bashrc file I believe so, but don't quote me. Try it: it should work. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread nomnex
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the Shell > to run the command in the background. See any beginner's guide to any > Unix/Linux shell (sh, csh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) for more information. Ah, that, and ^Z to

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:22 +0900, nomnex wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:08:48 -0600 > Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > > setxkbmap -option compose:menu & > > Wait, I have just a little question. What's the '&' for. Is it > mandatory? It seems I have the same result if I pass the command > witho

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: > What's the '&' for [?] If you don't use the '&' at the end of the line, the program will run, but the command line will be hung until the program is terminated. If you put the '&' oat the end of the command, then the running program goes into the background, I believe, and you

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread nomnex
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:08:48 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > setxkbmap -option compose:menu & Wait, I have just a little question. What's the '&' for. Is it mandatory? It seems I have the same result if I pass the command without it. setxkbmap -option compose:menu Thanks. -- nomnex --

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread nomnex
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:08:48 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > setxkbmap -option compose:menu & Merci -- nomnex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedo

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: > what's the setxkbmap command to use the menu key? There is no > right alt on the JP keyboard layout on my notebooks. I use KDE and there is a graphical interface to set it. However, I am guessing that you can likely find success with: setxkbmap -option compose:menu & -- user

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread nomnex
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:24:49 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > You can use the compose command and set it up in ~/.bashrc > > Add a line > > > > setxkbmap -option compose:ralt & > > I use the menu key, to the right of right-alt, since right-alt is > also known a

Re: Special characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > íïéë - Iḿ almost loving it... :) Tell me about it. It's like you can actually type freely and don't have to look at character charts to type words. > All I need to learn is which alt I need > to type to get the apostrophe, and not an m with an accent... apostrophe

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I don't even have a Menu key, nor anything labeled Windows I hate those damned windows keys, but they are handy as spare keys to be mapped to useful functions that windows does not have. I can use menu as compose, and the left windows key is actually meta, if I am

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > BTW all of these use Right Alt, not Left Alt. Yes, right alt and left alt are not the same thing. On German keyboards, left alt is called alt and right alt is called Alt-Gr, so you can see that they are different. Even on a US international keyboard, right alt m pro

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tim wrote: > f you take lessons, though. The keyboard layout becomes second nature, > quite quickly. You can do that with a program, you don't need to go to > a school. While it may seem overkill, for many, but if you do a lot of > email, or programming, or any other regular typing. It's worth

Re: Special characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > in F15 the settings are under System > Settings -> Region and Language -> Layout. I don't know which version of kde you are using, but in fedora 15, with kde-4.6.3, there is no layout under systemsettings/locale region and language. Layouts are shown under: system

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
> I'm using the other variation called "English (international AltGr dead > keys)". I will - probably at some point. Right now, I just have two (three, actually, Thai also) keyboard layouts enabled. One for when I'm typing English, and one for when I'm typing Dutch. Dutch barely uses any apo

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 22:52 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > I've always wanted a keyboard that has the letters arranged in order. > It makes no sense for me, and likely 95% of other computer users, to > have querty or other unnatural key arrangements. There are some children's keyboards that

Re: Special characters

2011-06-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 16 19:47, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > My apologies for not being clear in the opening letter, but I was looking > for a solution for Fedora 15. :) However, I did manage to get the > suggestion by Petrus de Calguarium to work, which was this: > > >> I'm using the US English keyboard, a

Re: Special characters

2011-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 19:47 +0700, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > íïéë - Iḿ almost loving it... :) All I need to learn is which alt I > need > to type to get the apostrophe, and not an m with an accent... Type a space after the '. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Special characters

2011-06-16 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
My apologies for not being clear in the opening letter, but I was looking for a solution for Fedora 15. :) However, I did manage to get the suggestion by Petrus de Calguarium to work, which was this: >> I'm using the US English keyboard, and am so used to that, I don't want >> to >> change t

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 00:24 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > You can use the compose command and set it up in ~/.bashrc > > Add a line > > > > setxkbmap -option compose:ralt & > > I use the menu key, to the right of right-alt, since right-alt is also known > as

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 00:18 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > The hardest to remember are ¿ and ¡ > > Really? > > ¿ is alt-/ (shift-/ is ?) > ¡ is alt-1 (shift-1 is !) That's true in Linux (though IIRC it sued to be different). However on a Mac keyboard which

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 22:19 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/15/2011 09:52 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > I realize that they are based on > > character frequency in English, > > No. They were arranged that way to minimize the possibility of keyboard > jams in early manual typewriters. The w

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Antonio Olivares wrote: > You can use the compose command and set it up in ~/.bashrc > Add a line > > setxkbmap -option compose:ralt & I use the menu key, to the right of right-alt, since right-alt is also known as Alt-Gr and it has a different function than left-alt. left-alt-m does not print

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 15 Jun 2011 at 22:52, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Petrus de Calguarium Subject:Re: Special Characters Date sent: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:52:05 -0600 Send reply to: Community support

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The hardest to remember are ¿ and ¡ Really? ¿ is alt-/ (shift-/ is ?) ¡ is alt-1 (shift-1 is !) I find those really obvious. I just found ç and Ç. They're also somewhat obvious, but not based on the c. ç is alt-, Ç is shift-alt-, -- users mailing list users@li

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Joe Zeff wrote: > No. They were arranged that way to minimize the possibility of keyboard > jams in early manual typewriters. True. Now that you mention it, it jogs my memory. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/15/2011 09:52 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > I realize that they are based on > character frequency in English, No. They were arranged that way to minimize the possibility of keyboard jams in early manual typewriters. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tim wrote: > Ever more, the need for the standard QWERTY keyboard (and its ilk) to be > abandoned has increased. It's inadequate for anything more than primary > school beginner's English. I've always wanted a keyboard that has the letters arranged in order. It makes no sense for me, and likely

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:41 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 14:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > IMHO this is the only reasonable way to do accented characters. The > > "compose-key" combos are hopeless for people who actually use accents > > continually, as I do in Spanish. The ot

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:14 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > nomnex wrote: > > > I used to simultaneously press , and keys. > > Release "U" key and enter Unicode symbol's hex code > > Holy Moley! But you have to memorize the unicode hex code for each character. > You're right, it doesn't w

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 14:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > IMHO this is the only reasonable way to do accented characters. The > "compose-key" combos are hopeless for people who actually use accents > continually, as I do in Spanish. The other option (using a special > language keyboard) can b

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread nomnex
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Antonio Olivares wrote: > nomnex, > > You can use the compose command and set it up in ~/.bashrc > Add a line > > setxkbmap -option compose:ralt & Antonio, thank you! -- nomnex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Antonio Olivares
> > IMHO this is the only reasonable way to do accented > characters. > > I used to simultaneously press , > and keys. > Release "U" key and enter Unicode symbol's hex code (I use > Fr/En)... It > does not always work (eg. applications using a QT toolkit) > > Linux compose key sequences method

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread nomnex
nobody to help me setting a compose key on LXDE? I found an article about editing XORG. in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules, the xorg file is now auto generated. And it says do DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. I have include this command in my bashrc file to be able to switch from US/CH(F) "setxkbmap -layout "jp,c

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: > I used to simultaneously press , and keys. > Release "U" key and enter Unicode symbol's hex code Holy Moley! But you have to memorize the unicode hex code for each character. You're right, it doesn't work in KDE. > Linux compose key sequences method is a gem I like them, too,

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:59 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Or diacritical+space, which works all the time. I speak as one with an > > apostrophe in my name :-) > > I have an ü :-) but in English, I usually just use ue. > ü pops up in Spanish now and again,

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Or diacritical+space, which works all the time. I speak as one with an > apostrophe in my name :-) I have an ü :-) but in English, I usually just use ue. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread nomnex
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:50:56 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > IMHO this is the only reasonable way to do accented characters. I used to simultaneously press , and keys. Release "U" key and enter Unicode symbol's hex code (I use Fr/En)... It does not always work (eg. applications using a QT t

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 11:19 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > > > I'm using the US English keyboard, and am so used to that, I don't want to > > change the layout. > > I type a lot in German and French and I also use the US 104-key generic > layout. > In systems

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > I'm using the US English keyboard, and am so used to that, I don't want to > change the layout. I type a lot in German and French and I also use the US 104-key generic layout. In systemsettings/input devices/keyboard/layouts, you can select US- international with de

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Sjoerd Mullender
used to be done, was by setting up a "compose" key in the > keyboard preferences. Then, to make special characters, you'd type your > compose key, then type the other characters that looked like the > character that you wanted to create. ("Type" as in typ

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Tim
mpose" key in the keyboard preferences. Then, to make special characters, you'd type your compose key, then type the other characters that looked like the character that you wanted to create. ("Type" as in type one key after another, not hold all the keys down at the same time.) e

Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
Hi There, I'm using the US English keyboard, and am so used to that, I don't want to change the layout. However, I type quite a few things in Dutch, and in F14 and earlier, I had standard enabled a special character "thingy" in the panel. This allowed me to chose a character (like é or ï - t