Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 17:33 +1030, Tim wrote: Tim: /me sings Old MacDonald had an accent... Patrick O'Callaghan: Well, not all of those are accents. There are other diacriticals (ñ for example is not an accented n, it's a different character) and some special symbols. Sorry, I just

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: and once a jolly swagman to you :-) ;-) Shame is that most people only hear the Americanised marching band version of that song. What's known as the Queensland version has a nicer melody. For those unaware of this, you can

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 08:28 +1030, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: and once a jolly swagman to you :-) ;-) Shame is that most people only hear the Americanised marching band version of that song. What's known as the Queensland version has a

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: ÁáÉéÍíÓóÚúÜüÑñç¿¡ make 17. /me sings Old MacDonald had an accent... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 09:05 +1030, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: ÁáÉéÍíÓóÚúÜüÑñç¿¡ make 17. /me sings Old MacDonald had an accent... Well, not all of those are accents. There are other diacriticals (ñ for example is not an accented n, it's a

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-15 Thread Tim
Tim: /me sings Old MacDonald had an accent... Patrick O'Callaghan: Well, not all of those are accents. There are other diacriticals (ñ for example is not an accented n, it's a different character) and some special symbols. Sorry, I just couldn't resist. It was close enough to ee eye ee eye

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 14 December 2014 at 09:12, Rolf Turner r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: [] One more thing, if I may be permitted: You (Tim) in your previous email mentioned the possibility of needing a cheat-sheet for the less obvious key combinations for constructing non-standard characters. Do such

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 01:21 -0500, Doug wrote: On 12/13/2014 10:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 14/12/14 14:04, Jim Lewis wrote: Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 12:21 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You can avoid the special Compose key by an appropriate keyboard selection that supports dead keys. I use UK International so to type á I hit ' and a. Similarly ñ is ~ and n, and so on. This is under KDE but I assume the same thing

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 20:12 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: One more thing, if I may be permitted: You (Tim) in your previous email mentioned the possibility of needing a cheat-sheet for the less obvious key combinations for constructing non-standard characters. Do such cheat-sheets exist? Is

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Doug
On 12/14/2014 02:12 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 14/12/14 18:20, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: I saw stuff about the compose key bizzo while googling around, but I couldn't figure out how to create a compose key. I tried to follow some instructions that I

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 23:22 +1030, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 12:21 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You can avoid the special Compose key by an appropriate keyboard selection that supports dead keys. I use UK International so to type á I hit ' and a. Similarly ñ is ~ and n, and so

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Doug
On 12/14/2014 12:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 23:22 +1030, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 12:21 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You can avoid the special Compose key by an appropriate keyboard selection that supports dead keys. I use UK International so to type

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 16:27 -0500, Doug wrote: Spanish has three accented vowels, and ñ, so with upper and lower case, that's 8 keys. I think Spanish also uses ç so 10. Add the ¿ and ¡ you have 12. ÁáÉéÍíÓóÚúÜüÑñç¿¡ make 17. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via ctrlshiftucode where code is the unicode hex number for producing the desired symbol. E.g. ctrlshiftue9 produces e-acute. Fine. Except ...

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Jim Lewis
Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via ctrlshiftucode where code is the unicode hex number for producing the desired symbol. E.g. ctrlshiftue9 produces e-acute. Fine. Except ...

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
On 14/12/14 14:04, Jim Lewis wrote: Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via ctrlshiftucode where code is the unicode hex number for producing the desired symbol. E.g. ctrlshiftue9

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via ctrlshiftucode where code is the unicode hex number for producing the desired

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
On 14/12/14 17:22, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via ctrlshiftucode where code is the unicode hex number for

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: I saw stuff about the compose key bizzo while googling around, but I couldn't figure out how to create a compose key. I tried to follow some instructions that I found, but could not get them to work. I'm using Gnome, or Mate,

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Doug
On 12/13/2014 10:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 14/12/14 14:04, Jim Lewis wrote: Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via ctrlshiftucode where code is the unicode hex number for

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu. (more)

2014-12-13 Thread Doug
On 12/13/2014 11:48 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 14/12/14 17:22, Tim wrote: /snip/ I have seen other references to the right-side windows key but I don't see any obvious candidate on my keyboard. (I have a Toshiba Satellite 850 laptop). /snip/ I went into the compose key characters in

Re: OT: disabling ctrlshiftf produces a find menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
On 14/12/14 18:20, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: I saw stuff about the compose key bizzo while googling around, but I couldn't figure out how to create a compose key. I tried to follow some instructions that I found, but could not get them to work. I'm