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How to type special characters in Gnome and Ubuntu

Posted in Geekery on Nov 17th, 2010

Despite using Gnome for ages, I’ve never bothered to work out how to type special characters, like ™ or ©. I’ve normally just opened the Character Map application and copied from there – obviously this is a bit of a round about process. I finally decided to look it up and it’s as simple as: [...]

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Disable your touchpad in Ubuntu/Gnome

Posted in Geekery on Jun 9th, 2010

If you’re like me and love your nipple, you might prefer to disable the touchpad on your ThinkPad. In openSUSE this is a trivial affair of opening up the Gnome mouse preferences and unchecking the Enable Touchpad option. When I went searching for this option in Ubuntu 10.04 I couldn’t find it, so I searched [...]

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