Scripting a character chooser with dzen2

Posted by eldersnake on Feb 13, 2014 12:15 PM EDT
The Linux Rain; By Bob Mesibov
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I use 16 special characters fairly regularly. They sit on a launchable 'palette' on my desktop. I select a character, then paste the character with a middle-click into wherever it's needed: text editor, word processor, email, webpage form etc. I built the palette using dzen2, a desktop notification utility written by Robert Manea and available in repositories.

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