Keyboard special caracters

gabsik · 12-14-2008, 02:01 PM

Hi all !
I'm getting into c programming and if by now i use to copy and paste all special caracters i need in bash , now i cannot keep on going this way . For making a { i sometimes also use a combination of ctrl+1,2,5 and alike but it's also too complicated to make and to remember and if it works in bash , if i'm not wrong , it might not work on a browser search and also i'm sure there must be a better way to do it like assigning special caracters on the keyboard as you better want .
I hope i was clear !
Thanks !

JZL240I-U · 12-16-2008, 01:09 AM

You might change your keyboard layout to "us". Then you have all those special characters like {}[] /\ ... in easy reach. If you don't know which key to press in the new layout, either try it or get a picture with the us-layout.

gabsik · 12-17-2008, 09:06 PM

That's also not that easy to achieve , i only need some characters changed not the all lot !
What's the canonical way for an it keyborad ?
Thanks !

JZL240I-U · 12-18-2008, 02:54 AM

It is quite easy, just look into your xorg.conf and change "it" to "us" in the keyboard section.

One can assign different characters to selected keys -- I just don't know how, never had that problem. Google?