{"id":8666,"date":"2019-02-21T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:34:09","slug":"enable-set-compose-key-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/02\/enable-set-compose-key-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable and Set Compose Key in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to enable compose key to allow entering a wide variety of special characters in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome desktop.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative to the Character Map tool, use Compose Key sequences can be the most effective way to type often used special characters. For example, compose key followed by <b>C<\/b> and <b>o<\/b> will enter <b>\u00a9<\/b>, <b>a<\/b> followed by <b>&#8216;<\/b> will enter <b>\u00e1<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/charactermap-600x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/charactermap-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/charactermap-450x265.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/charactermap-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/charactermap.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To enable compose key in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher Gnome desktop, first open Ubuntu Software, search for and install <b>Gnome Tweaks<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-600x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-600x202.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-450x152.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks-768x259.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/install-gnometweaks.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then open <b>Gnome Tweaks<\/b> and navigate to <b>Keyboard &#038; Mouse<\/b> settings in left pane.<\/p>\n<p>Click the &#8216;Compose Key&#8217; button to bring up its settings dialog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/enable-composekey-600x347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/enable-composekey-600x347.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/enable-composekey-450x260.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/enable-composekey-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/enable-composekey.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Turn on the switch and choose a compose key in next window:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/set-composekey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"291\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8669\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. For compose key sequences, see <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/GtkComposeTable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GtkComposeTable<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/GtkDeadKeyTable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GtkDeadKeyTable<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to enable compose key to allow entering a wide variety of special characters in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome desktop. As an alternative to the Character Map tool, use Compose Key sequences can be the most effective way to type often used special characters. For example, compose key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1651],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gnome-compose-key"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}