=============== indicator-chars

:Author: Tobias Schlitt [email protected]

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.

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.