indicator-chars

Author

Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net>

App indicator to provide a menu with (potentially funny UTF-8) characters for simple copying them to clipboard (similar to original characters applet).

Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of characters to be selectable.

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Author

Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com>

2021-01-25

• Python 3 and Gtk 3, tested on Ubuntu 21.10 with MATE desktop
• sudo apt-get install gir1.2-appindicator3

2016-02-03

• Some changes to make indicator-chars works on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Unity 2D
• replace the custom icon with a theme icon name
• add a char copy into Clipboard(selection="CLIPBOARD")
• Other minors changes
• use env to find the Python engine
• add a configuration file example: "conf-example.indicator-chars"

Install

• Checkout source code
• Create ~/.indicator-chars
  • Each row corresponds to a set of chars
  • Optional submenu title prefix: "[title]" (trailing spaces stripped)
  • Optional descriptions after chars: "(description)" (leading & trailing spaces stripped)
  • Spaces (apart from above) also count as chars
  • Make sure to use UTF-8 encoding
• Put indicator-chars.py into auto start

Open issues

• If anyone could design a nice, unity style indicator icon?
• Maybe there is a way to use multiple click buttons in menu items?
  • No standard Gtk way does not work.