On 2022-07-13 09:42, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On 7/12/22 22:41, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
About a year ago, I wanted to be able to access the degree (°)
without launching an app to show the seldom used characters then
finding the one I wanted and copying it and pasting it. I found
a way to modify the windows key so if I hold it down while
pressing o twice, I get °.
Under system setting go to input devices and then keyboard. Under
the keyboard settings click on the advanced tab and then check
Configure keyboard options. Then scroll down to "Position of Compose
key" and expand that.
To make this more general, this key is Multi_key, and I explained how
to map a key to it just a few days ago on this list. Start xev from a
terminal. While xev is running, push the key you want and remember
which keycode it generates, something like "keycode 105 (keysym 0xff20,
Control_R)". Then do "xmodmap -e 'keycode 105 = Multi_key' ". Now
holding this key and pushing o twice will give you a degree sign. There
are a ton of mappings for lots of symbols in the
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file.
Also, in the default mappings for X11, the Windows key is usually the
Super modifier. This is used for the special desktop effects in KDE,
lie Super-+ for zoom in, Super-- for zoom out, Super-* for "toggle mouse
click info", etcetera. System Settings->Workspace Behavior->Desktop
Effects.
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