flagrantdisregard » typing http://flagrantdisregard.com Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:09:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I used to think 90 wpm was pretty fast http://flagrantdisregard.com/i-used-to-think-90-wpm-was-pretty-fast/ http://flagrantdisregard.com/i-used-to-think-90-wpm-was-pretty-fast/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:43:42 +0000 John http://flagrantdisregard.com/?p=970 Maybe it is, but it sure isn’t competitive.

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]]> http://flagrantdisregard.com/i-used-to-think-90-wpm-was-pretty-fast/feed/ 5 Typing non-standard characters in Ubuntu/Gnome http://flagrantdisregard.com/typing-non-standard-characters-in-ubuntugnome/ http://flagrantdisregard.com/typing-non-standard-characters-in-ubuntugnome/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:25:23 +0000 John http://flagrantdisregard.com/?p=961 I’ve been itching for this for a long time but never got up the steam to actually go find out how to do it until today. You can type special characters (accented characters, special punctuation, etc.) directly from the keyboard by following this handy guide. (Shift+AltGr means press the Left Shift and Right Alt key at the same time.) For example, pressing and releasing Shift+Alt, then c, then | gives the cents symbol: ยข. Armed with this knowledge, expect me to get all punctuaty and typographical in future posts.

You can also press and release Ctrl+Shift+U, then a unicode hex value, then space. That’s equivalent to the Windows Alt+<unicode> shortcut. Get the hex values from the Character Map in the Accessories menu.

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