Sometimes adding a blank character helps with formatting. For example on Lemmy, it helps me separate lines of text if I insert a blank character between other lines. Currently, do that by copy-and-pasting the blank character from elsewhere. Here is an example

Is there a way I can do this on Linux easily from the keyboard? I am using KDE Neon and have the compose key enabled so that I can easily type uncommon characters like ‽, ñ, and é easily.

  • Ephera
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    6 months ago

    I believe Lemmy removed your blank character?
    At least, it doesn’t seem to show up when I try to select it or navigate around it with arrow keys, nor does the formatting look unusual.

    It’s usually possible to type Unicode characters by just inputting their codepoint/number. This kind of varies between desktop environments, but how it works for GNOME (and possibly others) is described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/tips-specialchars.html.en#ctrlshiftu

    Alternatively, you can also change your keyboard layout to include it. On X11, you’d do that with Xmodmap. Looks like there are some alternatives for Wayland, but I don’t know what to recommend there.

    Well, and another option would be to write a script which copies that character to your clipboard and then create a keyboard shortcut to call that script.
    For copying to the clipboard, you can use xclip on X11 and wl-clipboard on Wayland.