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How do I type an em dash in Ubuntu?
Hold down one of the Alt keys and type on the numeric keypad: 0150 for an en dash or 0151 for an em dash. The dash appears when you release the Alt key. On a keyboard with no numeric keypad, use a Fn + Function key combination to type the numbers.
Why can’t I type certain letters on my keyboard?
Your keyboard won’t type issue could happen just because your keyboard or the system that your computer is running gets stuck somehow. Once your keyboard is not working, you can firstly restart your computer. Without a keyboard, you can use your mouse to restart your computer.
How do you use special characters without a number pad?
- You must engage the keypad. Find and hold the fn key and press the Num Lock key. On my laptop it is located on the Scroll Lock key. A little led bulb should light to show that the keypad function is engaged.
- Now you can type in the alt symbols ALT + Fn + MJ89 = ½ symbol.
How to quickly type special characters in Linux-make?
Press it once again to switch back to English. For example, the Greek letter beta is: β. A further method to insert special characters into pdf or html documents is LATEX. In LATEX each special character has its own symbol, for example, the degree sign is circ (to be written as a superscript) and the infinity sign is infty.
Ayo Isaiah is a freelance writer from Lagos who loves everything technology with a particular interest in open-source software. Follow him on Twitter. As usual, the author assumes that Ubuntu == Linux and that GNOME is the only DE people use. The article is useless for anybody using other distros and DEs.
Why do I not get to type in my terminal?
If you can type in your terminal, but it’s only specific letters that refuse to appear, maybe your .inputrc configuration was somehow corrupted. You may have mistyped a parameter in the past, which ended up filtering out specific characters.