> I found some advice to use ibus instead, but so far I've not been able to > get ibus to do what I need without having it interfere with my normal > typing. I just need a quick way to type common symbols found in English text > (e.g. an em-dash). Well, as a workaround, I suggest you stop torturing yourself with memorized character codes and configure a compose key! In Gnome, that can be turned on with Keyboard Preferences / the Configuration button in the Layout section. Unfold the Compose Key section, and pick one. I use Right Alt. (Sorry, I'm not in front of a Gnome desktop right now so I can't be any clearer). Now you can input a special character by pressing the compose key, followed by two characters that you think would combine to form it. For example, Compose + o + c creates ©. Your em-dash is compose + minus + minus. Basically anything you could possibly want is there, including opening / closing quotation marks, fractions, some math symbols, super / subscripts, and accented characters. Here's a table I found with a web search: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GtkComposeTable And I, for one, wish the thing was enabled by default ;) Take care, Dylan _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
