Re: Where did my character selection tool go?
On 2025-07-13, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> This is what I originally wrote on <https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose>
> (except that I suggested using include "%L" at the top, instead of
> hard-coding en_US.UTF-8).
>
> Later, some people thought they were "improving" the page by adding
> all kinds of Desktop Environment crap, and now Max is saying that
> the page is "outdated".
The OP was specifically about Debian 12 with XFCE, for which the
character selection tool is gucharmap (GNOME Character Map). This is
the *correct* answer to the question posed. You've now gone off on an
irrelevant tangent which is par for the course.
That you don't like or use a desktop environment is completely beside
the point, and I'm afraid you've become your own X/Y problem. People use
these desktops environments for the tools they provide. This seems so
obvious that it wouldn't require mentioning if it weren't for you and
all the other professionals chiming in with answers that are unconnected
to the use of XFCE and the tool that mysteriously disappeared.
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