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I would be really grateful if someone could give me some guidance! I am trying to set up some shortcuts. The thing is that Ubuntu responds differently, according to the input language, specified by the user. Like yesterday, when I tried to set up the shortcut for thr terminal, hitting the letters alt+c the output was alt+greek_psi, taken from the greek language that I had at the time. As I have imagined, later inputs for the terminal corresponded only when I had switched to the greek keyboard. I have distro hoped for many years. This is something that I am facing for the first time. Linux mint as an example, when I pressed alt+c, no matter the language was, was behaving "universally". How can I have again the same behavior here, so my different shortcuts act "as is" no matter the language interface? I beg for your help! Phil

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On the default Ubuntu Terminal Alt+C does "Capitalize a letter on the cursor and move cursor at the end of the word."

You may use a global shortcut by editing System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts
You should consider not to use the combinations already in use.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen someone finds a way to display a list of all the shortcuts used in the system and applications. My best guess is to look at the Keyboard > Shortcuts and choose the most useless one for you and take the combination for your use. It should work globally.

In the case, you are looking for how to type Greek letters without switching keyboard layout. Here's my favorite way.

The Greek θ letter is a unicode character U+03B8.

Control+Shift+U 03B8 Space

This types Greek theta, it's convenient for mathematician or scripting a such scientical document. You may also want to use π U+03C0.

If you often use this, please register this as a global shortcut. There are many ways to do so, but each one has some problems preventing to work on some application. I think Compose key is easiest.

Reference : Compose "dead_greek" with compose key

Sadaharu Wakisaka
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