"enter special characters" page refers to missing and incorrect things

[Robin Sheat]

This page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/tips-specialchars.html

Has the instructions:

    *Define a compose key*

    Click the icon at the very right of the menu bar and select System Settings.

    Click Keyboard Layout.

There is no option called keyboard layout. There is "keyboard" and there is "text entry."

    Click Options.

Neither "keyboard" nor "text entry" have anything called "options."

my use-case here is trying to get AltGr-4 to give me the euro symbol, which I'm sure was possible in earlier Ubuntu versions.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report, Robin. Your observations are correct, and that page will be changed when Ubuntu 17.04 is released. Marking this bug as a duplicate.

As regards your use case, which keyboard layout are you using? Are you sure you need to enable a compose key to type the € symbol?

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Hi, thanks for the quick answer.

I use the Māori keyboard layout (which is just a generic US-Intl or similar layout with ready access to macrons.) It used to be that there was an option somewhere that enabled the euro symbol on the altgr+4, and it works on another computer but was configured before the 16.10 upgrade, so I was searching around for how to turn it on on this one but can't find it (and found the errors in the documentation while doing so.)

https://www.pcsteps.com/4669-type-the-euro-sign-linux-mint-ubuntu/

these are old instructions that used to work, but the options have gone. I can type compose-e-=, but euro is frequently enough used that it would be nice to have it on altgr-4 rather than ¼, which I never use.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Well, the Māori layout is quite different from us-intl (otherwise you could have typed € using <AltGr>+5). In any case the compose key is not what you are looking for.

To make a long story short, please open a terminal window and run this command (one line; beware of the line break):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['eurosign:4', 'lv3:ralt_switch']"

It ought to do what you want.

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

€€€

Perfect, thanks :D

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

...and of course a moment later I remember that gnome-tweak-tool gives me a nice menu for it all. Oh well :)