Is there a Win+. (dot) equivalent for Fedora that shows special character (or emoji) selection?
Or a convenient way to type any of these:
- arrow right →
- en dash —
- times, divide by sign ×,÷
- promille sign ‰
The one thing I found is type Ctrl +Shift +U followed by the unicode. Time to revive my unicode crib sheet…
There is on KDE. It’s Meta+Period (or windows and period if you’re on a windows style keyboard). I suspect you’re on Gnome…
Search engine says Ctrl+ period. I’ve no way of checking if this is true, but it should just be a key press away for you.
Alternatively, you could try setting up a Compose Key (in Gnome Settings - Keyboard). I have used the Caps Lock Key, which I can do without.
I prefer this as I often need Acute accents and macrons, and remembering the codes for every possible letter, both cases, is not very practical.
Partial list of characters here.
Yet another alternative is the Alt Gr key if you have one on your keyboard (I actually never had a keyboard without such a key, it sits to the right of the SPACE bar).
Press it in conjunction with any other key to produce special characters.
For example:
- Alt Gr – for “–”
- Alt Gr SHIFT - for “—”
- Alt Gr v for „ (I use this a lot as this is the leading quotation mark in German)
- Alt Gr b for “ (ending quotation mark)
- and so on, just try out all the different combinations +/- SHIFT to find and memorize the ones you need
(This is on a F42 KDE Plasma 6.4.5 machine, YMMV.)
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Also it’s layout-specific. For example Alt Gr x gives you » in the UK English layout, but « in the German layout.
And some layouts (e.g. US English) don’t have an AltGr key - the key is just treated as Right Alt.
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Here’s another list with some more combinations. (It’s on an Ubuntu site, but this shouldn’t be distro-specific.)
On KDE Plasma, compose sequences seem to work better than Ctrl-Shift-U, which is inconsistent between GTK and Qt apps. (You can make it work in Qt apps by turning on the iBus virtual keyboard functionality, but this introduces some problems of its own.)
Hi, maybe using the characters GNOME app Zeichen – Apps für GNOME works for you? It comes preinstalled with Workstation (I think) and I use it for typing rare characters and emojis from time to time.
On KDE Plasma, you can see them from the System Settings app.
Go to Keyboard and click the three-dot menu to the right of your layout, then click “Preview” in the dropdown.
You get a graphical preview like below. On each key, the bottom-right symbol is what you get from holding AltGr, and the top-right symbol is what you get from AltGrShift.
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Thanks, but I’m probably more likely to find a unicode page than digout the ubuntu list.
As I carry a US Int’l keyboard with dead keys layout I can type áäà by typing ‘ , “ or ` followed by a or any other of the ëïüö etc.
Makes sense, I think Ctrl-Shift-U is probably a more workable solution in GNOME than it is in Plasma.