Accent Hold extension on Ubuntu showing a pop-up of numbered accented e characters, with a cursor selecting oneTyping accented characters on Ubuntu isn’t as easy as it is on macOS (or modern smartphone keyboards), where you just have to a key to see available characters appear in a pop-over, and then pick one. Accent Hold is a GNOME Shell extension that adds macOS-style press-and-hold behaviour. Just press and hold a letter key (e, c, etc) and accented variants and other diacritics (é è ê ë, ç ć č, etc) appear in a small pop-up, beside the text cursor. Press the matching number to pick a character, or use your keyboard arrow keys or mouse. The default way […]

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