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I don't have a Compose key, and I really wish I did. I tried mapping my left Alt key to act as a Compose key, but I couldn't get it to work on Linux. As a worka
by sidpatil 5y ago
I don't have a Compose key, and I really wish I did. I tried mapping my left Alt key to act as a Compose key, but I couldn't get it to work on Linux. As a workaround, I mapped a keycombo to pull up a rofi [1] menu with a list of common Unicode characters, and upon selection of a character it gets sent to my system clipboard, from where I can just paste it. In that regard, it's more like Character Map than like an actual Compose key, but it does work quite well for my needs.
When I'm on Windows, mapping a key to Compose is actually much easier to do, through the excellent WinCompose utility [2].
[1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
[2] http://wincompose.info/ http://wincompose.info/
- schoen 5y agoThe official OS location for setting this was moved, at least in GNOME, from "Keyboard" to "Tweaks" (package "gnome-tweaks"). If you try installing that, you might be able to get the official Compose functionality!