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On Monday 10 Jan 2005 17:41, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
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> > 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
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