It’s also integrated into Xorg if you use Linux. Enable the compose key, then you can press whatever you set as compose and then type in “CCCP”, and you get: ☭.
In KDE and probably GNOME, the compose key can be enabled from settings. If using a WM like me, you’ll need to add something like setxkbmap -option compose:ralt to your startup commands in your config. That command sets it to right alt. You can change ralt to whatever key you want to be your compose key.
Since it is in unicode, you can also do Ctrl+Shift+U followed by 262d to make “☭” in most apps.
If using a WM like me, you’ll need to add something like setxkbmap -option compose:ralt to your startup commands in your config.
Instead of adding it to startup commands, it’s also possible to add it to the Xorg configuration. I use a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf with the contents:
It’s also integrated into Xorg if you use Linux. Enable the compose key, then you can press whatever you set as compose and then type in “CCCP”, and you get: ☭.
In KDE and probably GNOME, the compose key can be enabled from settings. If using a WM like me, you’ll need to add something like
setxkbmap -option compose:raltto your startup commands in your config. That command sets it to right alt. You can changeraltto whatever key you want to be your compose key.Since it is in unicode, you can also do Ctrl+Shift+U followed by 262d to make “☭” in most apps.
Instead of adding it to startup commands, it’s also possible to add it to the Xorg configuration. I use a file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.confwith the contents:Section "InputClass" Identifier "keyboard-all" MatchIsKeyboard "on" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:caps" EndSectionto enable the compose key.
Oh, thanks, didn’t know about that.