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>Using GNOME Character Map</A
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><A
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>Basic usage</A
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>    Starting <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
> opens 
    the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Main window</SPAN
>, shown in <A
HREF="usage.html#MAINWINDOW-FIG"
>Figure 1</A
>.

    
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><B
>Figure 1. GNOME Character Map Main Window</B
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>    Create the desired text by clicking on the character buttons.
    Notice that as your mouse moves over each character, the character
    is shown in the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Previewer</SPAN
>(the black box to
    the right).  You may also enter standard keyboard text by typing
    on the keyboard. (You may have to click in the entry to bring the
    cursor focus to the entry.)  If you cannot find a character you
    would like to type, you may specify the character by its ASCII
    index(a number between 0 and 255)
    by using the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Insert ASCII Character Dialog</SPAN
>,
    which is accessible under the <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Edit</B
> menu. 
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>    After you are finished creating the text, click on the
    <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Copy</B
> button to copy the text in the entry
    to the clipboard.  Alternately, you can click on the
    <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Cut</B
> button to both copy the text to the
    clipboard and erase it from the entry.  You can also use the items
    in the <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Edit</B
> menu or the keyboard shortcuts
    shown in this menu to cut, copy, and paste.
   </P
><P
>    To paste the text, first switch to your text editor, word processor, or
    whatever. Then press the middle mouse button (or emulate it by
    pressing both the left and right mouse buttons together) to paste
    the text.
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>Situations Where Pasting Text Won't Work</B
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>     If you try to paste the text from the clipboard but it does not
     appear, then there are several possible reasons why:  
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><LI
><P
>        You closed <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
>
        after you copied the text. X is not like Microsoft Windows; if
        you shut down an application, any data written to the clipboard
        by that application is lost. The golden rule: paste the text
        first, then shut down <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Gnome Character
        Map</TT
>.
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><LI
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>        You clicked at the wrong place in your editor/whatever! You should
        click in the text-editing area.
       </P
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>        You have inadvertantly replaced the copied text with other
        text.  In X, any time you highlight text, the text is copied
        into the clipboard and can be pasted.  Thus, if you highlight
        text after copying the text in <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character
        Map</TT
>, the new highlighted text will replace the
        text in the clipboard from <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character
        Map</TT
>. Just go back to <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME
        Character Map</TT
> and copy the text again.
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><A
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>Menus</A
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><P
>    The menu bar, located at the top of the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Main
    Window</SPAN
>, contains the following menus:
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><DT
><B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>File</B
></DT
><DD
><P
>       This menu contains:
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><LI
><P
>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Exit</B
> (<B
CLASS="SHORTCUT"
><SPAN
CLASS="KEYSYM"
>Ctrl-Q</SPAN
></B
>)
          which closes <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
>.
         </P
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>
      </P
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><B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Edit</B
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><P
>       This menu contains:
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><LI
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>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Cut</B
> (<B
CLASS="SHORTCUT"
><SPAN
CLASS="KEYSYM"
>Ctrl-X</SPAN
></B
>)
          which cuts(removes) the text from the entry and places it in the
          clipboard.
         </P
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>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Copy</B
> (<B
CLASS="SHORTCUT"
><SPAN
CLASS="KEYSYM"
>Ctrl-C</SPAN
></B
>)
          which copies the text from the entry and places it in the
          clipboard, while leaving the original text in the entry.
         </P
></LI
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><P
>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Paste</B
> (<B
CLASS="SHORTCUT"
><SPAN
CLASS="KEYSYM"
>Ctrl-V</SPAN
></B
>)
          which pastes any text in the clipboard (which was placed
          there by a previous cut or copy) into the entry.
         </P
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>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Select All</B
>
          which selects all text in the entry.
         </P
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>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Insert ASCII Character</B
>
          which opens the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Insert ASCII
          Character</SPAN
> Dialog(see <A
HREF="usage.html#INSERTASCII-FIG"
>Figure 2</A
> which allows
          you to specify the ASCII value for the character you wish to
          insert.
         </P
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><A
NAME="INSERTASCII-FIG"
></A
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><IMG
SRC="images/gcharmap_insertascii.png"></P
><P
><B
>Figure 2. Insert ASCII Character Dialog</B
></P
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><B
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>View</B
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><P
>       This menu contains:
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><LI
><P
>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Toolbar</B
>
          determines whether the icon-based toolbar below the top menu
          bar and above the text entry is shown.
         </P
></LI
><LI
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>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Statusbar</B
>
          determines whether the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>status bar</SPAN
> is
          shown at the bottom of the window. The <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>status
          bar</SPAN
> shows character below the mouse pointer and
          the corresponding ASCII index of the character.
         </P
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>
      </P
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><B
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>Help</B
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><P
>       This menu contains:
       <P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Manual</B
> shows this manual.
         </P
></LI
><LI
><P
>          <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>About</B
> shows
          basic information about
          <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Character Map</TT
>, such as
          the author's name and the application version number.
         </P
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