[Users] How do they do that?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:20:09 -0700, sylpheed at 911networks.com wrote:
>I'm the OP, arch/current with xfce [snip] and the shortcut doesn't
>work.

I don't know if it works for my Xfce install, I stopped using Xfce a
long, long time ago and can't run a Xfce session right now, since on my
current openbox session a resource hungry process needs each bit and
and CPU cycle right now.

Did you try some hints from the Internet?

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5995
http://superuser.com/questions/382104/how-can-i-input-unicode-characters-by-code-point-in-xfce-ubuntu
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Smart_Common_Input_Method_platform#Note_for_GNOME.2C_Xfce.2C_LXDE
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fcitx
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#rxvt-unicode

Even while the shortcut works for me, I'm not using it. I very seldom
need unicode chars and assumed I should need one, I copy and paste it.

I wrote a script to provide the characters I most often need.

  [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/sonderzeichen 
  #!/usr/bin/env dash

  echo "\
  ┌──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┐\n\
  │ 1│ 2│ 3│ 4│ 5│ 6│ 7│ 8│ 9│10│11│12│13│14│\n\
  ├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤\n\
  │ *│ ?│ !│ =│ |│ ★│ ☆│ ✓│ ✔│ ✖│ ✗│ ✘│ ♩│ ♪│\n\
  └──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┘\n\
  ┌──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┐\n\
  │15│16│17│18│19│20│21│22│23│24│25│26│27│28│\n\
  ├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤\n\
  │ ♫│ ♬│ ♭│ ♮│ ♯│🚀 │ ♏│ α│ µ│ ς│ Ⅎ│ ⅂│ Ɐ│ ᴚ│\n\
  └──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┘\n"

  exit

Actually I only use the "notes", to mark roxterm window titles running
apps used for music production.