-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 Jan 2005 17:41, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Not wanting to hijack the web-page thread, but Kaj's comment reminded me > > of a minor annoyance. I don't need special characters all that often, > > but when I do I have to use kcharselect (not knocking it - it's a useful > > tool). I used to be able to memorise a few select ASCII codes and enter > > them by alt+numberpad code. That's much quicker if you are preparing a > > longish document. I find it hard to believe that there isn't a similar > > facility in Linux, but I haven't found it yet. Does it exist? > > > > Anne > > Anne, > The Left-Alt+numberpad works in the console, but X grabs the left-Alt > key, so it doesn't work in X. Maybe you could remap the keys in X so > that the left Alt key goes back to the same function as in the cli, and > map the right Alt key to work in place of the left one? Something to > play with when you have some spare time... > Hmm - I haven't time to mess with this right now, but it's certainly worth a thought. Thanks.
Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4r9MkFAvMr/nNX8RAmdJAJ9bycgHfPjb51Yh7eEyMeT6aHcMlgCfX9jf D04OKnflxY1yN2OS8OVIOzs= =n5mo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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