How can I use the "English (UK)" input source on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 to add accents etc to letters?
3 Answers
If you look at the UK keyboard layout chart:
you'll see a ton of tertiary and quaternary symbols per key.
These are used with the Right Alt for the tertiary and Right Alt+Shift for the quaternary ones, so Right Alt+Shift+M will give you °, so you can now write: -40°C = -40°F
In addition to @Fabby's answer, don't forget about the Compose key Shift+AltGr.
The keys must be pressed in that order, as AltGr+Shift gives the dead-key, as described by Fabby.
For example, Shift+AltGr, o, o gives you °
. (Note that you press Shift and then AltGr at the same time, then let go of both keys before pressing o, and o again.)
More examples that can be obtained with Shift+AltGr:
- é: e, '
- ç: c, ,
- ö: o, "
- ß: s, s
- ½: 1, 2
- →: -, >
- — (em-dash): -, -, -
Refer to /usr/share/X11/locale/${LANG}/Compose
for a full list. (If the file doesn't exist, use your closest ${LANG}
. For example, my ${LANG}
is en_GB.UTF-8
, but the nearest file for me is /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
.)
Some suddenly misconfiguration maked me write spanish tildes like "´a". You didn't tell your keyboard layout.
My .xinputrc was old. I solved only excecuting:
im-config
And I followed choosing 'default'.
If your layout is not in your target accents-language you can write some symbols and all characters with an easy app gucharmap
(I have it in Xubuntu, maybe in ubuntu works as well)