On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:33:56AM +1200, Gavin Flower wrote:
> On 12/05/16 08:26, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>> On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 14:41 -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:26:41PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>>>> On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 09:13 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>>>> On 05/11/2016 08:01 AM, Peter G. wrote:
>>>>>> How do you type the Greek beta
>>>>> >from the keyboard (I use US dead keys—always and exclusively)?
>>>>> One way is C-S-u 0 3 b 2 Space
>>>> what you mean by C-S-u ? can't figure out
>>> ctrl-shift-u followed by a zero, a 3, a b, a 2, and a space.
>>>
>>> try it at a terminal prompt, follow it with a space, and see what you
>>> get.
>>> I get a beta.
>> ah only works on gnome terminal , not in konsole
>>
>>
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12244/how-can-i-type-unicode-ch
>> aracters-into-kdes-konsole-terminal-from-a-gnome-deskt
>>
>> I could workaround running:
>> python -c "print u'\u03b2'"
>>
>> Thanks,
> Works under Mate with LibreOffice.
>
> You don't the <expletive deleted> GNOME 3 for this!
yeah, I failed to mention I was using Mate Terminal, which is probably
derived from Gnome-2 terminal. Didn't try it in LibreOffice, but glad
to hear that it works. I did try it in vi (vim) where it didn't seem
to do anything.
I used to use GNOME 2 exclusively, I think the best version of GNOME was
2.4.2.
When GNOME 3 was foisted on us, I initially fled to xfce, now I've been
on Mate for a few years.
With LibreOffice 5.1.x you can also use <Ctrl>X, see: