Hello all,
This is the opposite of an offer to present something. Rather, I am hoping there is enough interest such that one of GTALUG' s more learned souls might be able to present.
Specifically, keyboards. I have never quite mastered how to get random Unicode characters from a keyboard on a Linux desktop. I've allways been able to switch keyboards, and I can do French (and some other) accents using dead keys. But I've never been able to duplicate the Windows trick of (for instance) ALT-0128 to get the Euro symbol.
Most keyboards these days, in addition to Control keys, have a pair each Windows and Alt keys. On my KDE desktop the Windows key brings up the applications menu - fine. But if I look at /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose I see references to a <Multi_key> that would allow me to combine keystrokes to make ligatures (such as combining "R" and "=" to make the Rupee symbol. I don' t see a key marked "multi key" and I haven't found the ability to do these combined characters.
In the KDE keyboard settings there is mention of mapping a <Meta> key to one of the low-row keyboard keys ... but isn't that an EMACS thing? And what is a <Hyper> key?
If the answer is RTFM, I happily withdraw the request so long as someone can suggest an FM to R.
My efforts to find decent docs on any of this have not gone well. So either a pointer to a good tutorial-level explanation of all this, or a brief mini-presentation at the next GTALUG meeting by someone who knows this stuff, would be highly appreciated.
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Evan Leibovitch
Toronto, Canada
Em: evan at telly dot org