The "cent key"

[Bill Sconce]

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:09:37 -0400
Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:

> Travis Roy wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On my mac I can hold option $
> > 
> > Just my 2¢
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> On my ThinkPad under FC6, I can just type ¢ By selecting Menu, Character
> Map, View, by Unicode Block, Latin-1, finding the character, clicking
> Copy, clicking back into the message, selecting Paste.
> 
> How hard could it be?
> 
> I'll bet there's an easier way... time to read the rtfm....


For one, there's xmodmap.  My keyboards are set up so that the otherwise
useless (or worse) key to the left of "A" is what I call a "Tux" key.

For example:
              "Tux" 4     £
        Shift "Tux" 4     ¢
              "Tux" e     é

(And good riddance to Caps Lock.)

-Bill

______________________
P.S.  "rtfm?"  Oh, yes INDEED.  What a *monster* the X-keymapping
Tower of Babel is...

P.P.S.  Hmm.  A possible topic for a presentation some month...?