I always had to push 2 times the ^ key to get a ^ (Caret) in Ubuntu Linux / Gnome.
So for my favourite emoticon ^^ / 
, i had to press the Caret button 4 time! What a waste of life. I asked myself, how can i reduce this to 1? Since i know this works in other OSes, i wanted to change it.
By default, ^ is a dead key to generate following symbols: êô⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰ŵêẑûîô⁺ĵĥĝŝâŷĉ. But i don’t need them, i want to generate my favourite emoticon ^^ without pressing 4 times ^…
I’m on a German layout, and tried all of them in gnome-keyboard-properties.
Maybe the keyboard model is related to this, I always choose Asus Laptop, since i use one ^^.
It’s btw a pain in the behind that gnome-keyboard-properties only stores 4 possibilities, and I can’t edit them. I have to remove them an add a new one, and select Germany all the way again T_T. After getting that I had to restart gnome-keyboard-properties to really change the layout, I was able to really test them D:
Same thing for other apps. I had to restart gedit to get the new layout working. This is very confusing and has to be said somewhere… Like in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialogue… And if its not meant to be like this, then this is a bug 
Did you know that Google does not search for Caret? http://www.google.com/search?q=^
It is used for the power of a number: http://www.google.com/search?q=2^3
Why can’t you escape this with \, like in every other sane application?
More about Google’s lack of special character support can be found here.
I tested some the layouts:
| Germany | Works, but i have to push ^ two times to get one. |
| Germany Dead acute | Seems to work the same as Germany (but gnome-keyboard-properties was not restarted, so it was untested) |
| Germany Dvorak | Wrong layout, but ^ is not dead anymore, this would be how i like it. |
| Germany Sun Dead Keys | Seems to work the same as Germany (but gnome-keyboard-properties was not restarted, so it was untested) |
| Germany Dead grave accurate | Yeah This is it!! |
So have fun on your keyboards, and add to your custom emoticons in Pidgin for XMPP.
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