| mrjb | hello, I recently upgraded to ubuntustudio 13.04 but am having trouble finding how to set up the "compose" key. | 21:01 |
|---|---|---|
| mrjb | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey#Ubuntu_with_Gnome_desktop has a manual but the System=>Preferences=>Keyboard menu simply does not exist? | 21:01 |
| Unit193 | You are using xfce, so menu > settings manager > keyboard | 21:02 |
| mrjb | Excellent, I found that, but no mention of the compose key. There's what appears to be a search box but it's disabled. | 21:04 |
| mrjb | Note that i am not looking simply to change the keyboard layout. I very much dislike "dead keys" because they always get in the way. | 21:08 |
| mrjb | Instead I would like to hit the AltGr or right "windows" key if i need an accented character. | 21:08 |
| Unit193 | You should be able to add a new one, and hit the key for it to pick up. | 21:09 |
| mrjb | I'm not sure you fully understand what I'm on about. When I was running vanilla ubuntu 10.04, I could go to system->settings->keyboard and there was mention of a "compose key". | 21:10 |
| mrjb | after I enabled that to be mapped to my right win key, i could hit rightwin key followed by, for example, O c and it would display the copyright symbol (since it looks like an "O" and a "c" at the same position). | 21:11 |
| mrjb | But the same menu option doesn't appear to exist at the moment. So how do I enable the compose key for ubustu 13.4? | 21:12 |
| Unit193 | Ah, terribly sorry. Yes, I was on a different page, thinking a keyboard key for a email compose button. :P | 21:12 |
| mrjb | ah haha no that's actually pretty much self-configuring. I hit the email button on my keyboard, I instantly get a popup which app it should run. | 21:13 |
| mrjb | which is none because i have an online mail reader somewhere abroad. | 21:13 |
| Unit193 | Alright, and did the upgrade leave you on Gnome or take you to Xfce? In xfce: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23726 should do it, gnome I don't know as I haven't really used it. | 21:14 |
| mrjb | This whole compose key business is extremely practical to me, because although i generally am in an english-speaking environment, i do tend to chat with people in 4 different languages , one of them Portuguese. Which is a pain to type without special characters :) | 21:15 |
| mrjb | Brilliant, that solves it. | 21:16 |
| mrjb | setxkbmap -option compose:rwin and I'm back in business. | 21:16 |
| Unit193 | I understand. Personally, I use Ctrl+Shift+U for unicode input number, but that isn't what you're looking for. :) | 21:16 |
| mrjb | (have a play around with it. it's awesome) | 21:16 |
| mrjb | yeah, I really can't be bothered memorizing the whole UTF-8 character set ;) | 21:17 |
| mrjb | massive thanks Unit193 | 21:17 |
| Unit193 | Sure, glad I could help. | 21:17 |
| mrjb | and it took all of 5 minutes! you have no idea how much time I spent looking for this... let's just say it was considerably longer than that ;) | 21:19 |
| Unit193 | Also helps to know that you are (most likely) running Xfce now rather than Gnome. | 21:19 |
| caodepalha | Hi everyone. is anyone using reaper or any other daw via wine? is it a good alternative? | 22:26 |
| mrjb | have played around with reaper via wine - seems halfway convincing sound-wise. | 22:31 |
| caodepalha | what do you mean halfway? :) is it reliable to work? | 22:31 |
| mrjb | it's long ago for me and i only briefly messed around with it, so i can't really tell | 22:32 |
| caodepalha | do you use any daw now? | 22:33 |
| mrjb | spent more time messing about with Ardour which seems a lot more useable and stable nowadays than say 4 years back. | 22:33 |
| caodepalha | i really like ardour. just miss a few vst plugins | 22:33 |
| mrjb | which VST plugins specifically? | 22:34 |
| caodepalha | still havent found a way to install more plugins in ardour | 22:34 |
| caodepalha | the waves pack | 22:34 |
| mrjb | you've got all of ladspa 1&2... | 22:34 |
| mrjb | okay help me out here, what does the waves pack do? | 22:34 |
| caodepalha | well they have great plugins for mixing for example | 22:34 |
| caodepalha | tape simulators etc | 22:35 |
| mrjb | hang on (starting up ardour) | 22:35 |
| caodepalha | ok | 22:36 |
| caodepalha | :) | 22:36 |
| caodepalha | i have ardour and harrison mixbus | 22:36 |
| mrjb | specifically a tape simulator i can't find at the moment, but for the sake of natural compression, perhaps the tube simulators are a close enough approximation | 22:40 |
| mrjb | C* AmpIV seems a pretty decent alternative, for example | 22:40 |
| caodepalha | is there a need is there a need to look for more plugins other than the default ardour ones? | 22:41 |
| caodepalha | i still didnt figured out how to install new plugins though | 22:41 |
| mrjb | for most intents and purposes, there's plenty of them for regular use i'd say, just try them out | 22:44 |
| mrjb | some specialistic ones may need separate installing, for instance there's the "autotalent" pitch correction one which is prominently missing from the default plugins | 22:45 |
| mrjb | i remember managing get it working a few years back using just the provided instructions | 22:46 |
| mrjb | other than that, the few hundred plugins which come with ardour pretty much will fit your every need | 22:46 |
| mrjb | (unless you're *heavily* into special sound fx) | 22:47 |
| mrjb | oh well, i'm off to bed now | 22:47 |
| caodepalha | allright! just wondered if reaper was "usable" under wine. but i'm getting along pretty well with ardour | 22:47 |
| mrjb | have a good one | 22:47 |
| caodepalha | thank you! | 22:47 |
| mrjb | as far as i can tell | 22:47 |
| mrjb | reaper is "usable" | 22:48 |
| mrjb | but personally i prefer native apps | 22:48 |
| caodepalha | allright thank you | 22:48 |
| mrjb | whatever works best for you is what you should use :) | 22:48 |
Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!