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indicator-chars
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:Author: Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net>

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.

**Fork by Cyrille37**

:Author: Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com>

- Some changes to make indicator-chars works on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Unity 2D

  - replace the custom icon with a theme icon name

  - add a char copy into Clipboard(selection="CLIPBOARD")

- Other minors changes

  - use env to find the Python engine

  - add a configuration file example: "conf-example.indicator-chars"

**Fork by Adrian I Lam**

:Author: Adrian I Lam <adrianiainlam@gmail.com>

- Changes to Cyrille37's fork:

  - port to Python 3 from Python 2

  - use the svg custom icon

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Install
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- 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

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Open issues
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- 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.