Re: Where did my character selection tool go?
Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Chris Green wrote:
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> > I'm running Debian 12 with XFCE on two systems.
> > ... because I just needed a 'degrees' symbol.
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> On this Debian 12 machine (QWERTY keyboard) with Xfce, I have the following
> keyboard setup : Xfce -> Applications -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Layout =
> English(US), with Variant = English (US, intl, with dead keys) .
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> This provides the ° character with the three keys RightAlt + Shift + :
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> I didn't need any additional character mapping.
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> This setup also makes it easy to write in french with accents.
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OP here. Yes, for accented characters and such I use a compose key,
so é is <compose key> + e + ', and so on. However I can't always
guess the right sequence for less frequently used things like block
graphic characters and, in this case, degrees.
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Chris Green
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