When I hold a letter button on Mac, a pop-up appears asking if I'd like to enter an accented version of this letter (like é or ë for e). Can this be configured to work the same way on GNU/Linux?
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I've been wondering if there's any add on available that does something like Mac OS X. My mother tongue is Spanish, and now I live in a Francophone environment, I also do English a lot, so I'm in need of different accents, specially in French, I have been using Linux for two years now and have also been using Mac OS X every now and then, for testing purposes. I find really useful the functionality available on Mac OS X, where you keep pressing the key and it displays a list of available options on the same character, different accents, or punctuation. Can I do this on Linux?
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I already knew that Ctrl+Shift+u would allow to type a character by giving its Unicode hexadecimal representation: an underlined u appears, you type the code and hit Enter.   For example, Ctrl+Shift+u; e; 9; Enter gives the character é.  Now I've just noticed that Ctrl+Shift+e lets an underline e appear, in a very similar manner, but I can't figure out what it does.  Does someone know? Thank you in advance.
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I am confused about how Ctrl-key combinations work in terminal. In bash man page, there are various combinations such as:   C-e - go to end of the line C-f - go one character forward   etc.  But then there are some undocumented shortcuts such as:   C-j (OR C-m) for return key. C-h for backspace C-i for tab etc.   Are these shortcuts just forgotten to be documented? Or, because   C-j is LF C-m is CR C-i is Tab   in ASCII, is this somehow a "default" behavior? In other words, is the behavior for C-j, C-m and C-i not implemented by bash but by something else?  Another question is, when I press C-v and left arrow key, ^[[D appears on screen. I.e, ESC-[-d. But when I press ESC-[-d, the cursor does not move left. What is the reason for this?  EDIT:  Initially, I have thought that when I press C-j, the keyboard directly sends 00001010 to kernel. But then I decided that this is not the case, because using programs such as xev or evtest, I have observed that key presses to Control and j appear as different events. So when I press C-j, the keyboard does not send 00001010, but probably multiple bytes. Then where the conversion of these multiple bytes to 00001010 is done?
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Does anyone know how to make the character picker appear more quickly?   I use it enough now in my German language studies that it has become second nature for the critical marks and much faster than using the alt+keypress shortcuts.   Only problem is that it's so second nature that sometimes it doesn't pop up quickly enough so I end up typing the character and the number shortcut sometimes (IE u2 instead of ü). Anyone know how to make it appear with less delay? Ideally, I'd love if I could just hold the character and press the number but it appears that OSX insists on waiting for the menu to pop up.
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Is it possible to give the letters a,e,i,o,u,y a different color in a piece of text? For instance, color all the a's red, the e's blue, the i's green, etc.  EDIT: Without doing it manually of course.
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What's wrong: I hit CMD+SPACE to open up spotlight, typically type in the name of the application I want to start, hit enter and either the wrong app or no app at all will start, because the app name is missing the first character. "Learn to type" I hear you say but wait: as I enter the first character in the search bar, the cursor jumps to the beginning of the line and my second character input overrides the first one. So entering for example "ever", in order to start Evernote, will result in "ver". "php" to start PHPStorm will result in "hp" and start my damn HP printer app and so on.   This cursor jump to the beginning of the line will not happen in any other application and even if I accept the fact that my cursor jumps from time to time, I don't get why the second character overrides the first one. I'm not even sure if you can configure your Mac to always override the character at current position, but I surely haven't.  So this keeps on happening quite regularly and I cannot reproduce it. It just happens and when I try it again (close Spotlight, CMD+SHIFT again), it won't happen again, even if I give it like 5 tries or so.  It won't kill me but I am a software developer myself and this kind of bugs just leave me frustrated plus I can not imagine that this is the desired behavior. I have seen some talk about this issue on the internet but I did not come across a solution..  I have 3 MacBooks, different ages, all with German keyboard layouts and German set as system language and they all do this. Just mentioning this, because after that fact, I can barely imagine this isn't affecting at least a lot, if not all, MacBook (Pro?) users.   13" Pro 2010 or so 15" Pro Retina 2013 13" Pro Retina 2015   They all run El Capitan but I already encountered this before. I don't know the OS X version I had installed when I first stumbled across it.
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OS X lets me type special characters directly on the keyboard by holding the Option. For example: — is an em dash, “ and ” are curvy quotes, etc.  Is there a good cheat sheet listing all these keys somewhere? I tend to find myself holding option and running my hands up and down the keyboard looking for a specific character.
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I'd like to switch my Ctrl and Alt keys under Linux (to make it more Mac-like).  How do I do this?  If it helps, I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.
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When in a browser (Chrome or Safari), the following keyboard shortcut will always bring up a window that says "Welcome To Mail":  Command+Shift+I  I would like to use this shortcut for another purpose.  Is there any way to disable this shortcut?
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I was using a Linux console and suddenly the format of the letters changed:    I probably pressed on the wrong keys. Any idea how to fix this?
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I have to change my language option very often. It is hard when I write something with combination of both "English" &amp; "Bangla", because I have to change that option rapidly.  Is there any way to set a keyboard shortcut, so that I can change my language option by it while typing?  I am using MacBook Pro with OS X.   Here is a screen shot:    Screen Shot of my Preference:
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Using iOS I have grown to love double-pressing the spacebar to enter a full stop / period, especially when using a keyboard with my iPad. When I enter &quot; &quot; +  &quot; &quot; I would like the system to output &quot;. &quot; Is there any way I can enable this same option in OS X / macOS?
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My problem is whenever I type quotes on Snow Leopard 10.6.4, it waits for the next character typed, and turns it into another character instead of just typing quotes.  example:   [shift] + " a results in ä  [shift] + " u results in ü  I don't want this functionality, I just want to type quotes normally, I don't need these characters.
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Is there a standard way to typeset the special symbols of the Apple Mac keyboard? That is, the curly rectangle ⌘ and the others?  If there is none, what would you suggest as workarounds?
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Basically, is there any way to trigger the native OS X spellcheck context menu using a keyboard shortcut. I know the command keys ⌘+: activates spellcheck, but what I'm trying to do is get the result of a right-click without taking my hands off the keyboard. Is there an OS X equivalent to emacs' flyspell-correct-word-before-point command.
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Whenever I'm at the console login, I press up arrow intentionally to see the previously typed commands. But I see this ^[[A.  But when I press Ctrl Alt Print Screen Scroll Lock Pause Break Page Up Page Down Win keys doesn't echo any characters.  What might be the reason behind?  Does ^[[A sort of characters imply anything?
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everyone!  I had to change keyboards at work and they gave me a mac keyboard that wasn't in use. I configured most of it to the point where I can use it, but I noticed that I need to press the fn key to activate the Functions F1~F19 and I was wondering if there is anyway I could flip that.  So what I want to do is have the Function keys as default, and need to hit fn whenever I want the other function of the key, such as Volume Up or Eject Disc