I’m making the bold assumption, that most people here are not running, in either local body or national elections.
Everyone loves the complain about what “public servants” do. So why not step up and do something about it?
No accusation intended or implied. Just curious.
You could try enabling the compose key
I stopped using Gnome a few years ago, I’m running on Cinnamon now.
For me it is ralt, then hold ralt and hit e twice = ə; a twice = å; c twice = č, s twice = ß; ralt then 1 then 4 = ¼…there are alot; and ā = ralt then a then minus
I also have right alt. I can do āēīōū by holding right alt and pressing the letter. Just checking settings, I seem to have the compose key disabled but the alternate character key enabled. I have Māori as the input language.
right-alt as the alternative character key must be the default as I had it too, but at least replying here (in Zen) it doesn’t seem to do anything. So I added another input source to have English & Maori, but still doesn’t seem to do anything, nor does toggling the compose key.
I guess there’s a chance Zen just doesn’t respect those settings / implement them.
I tested in Zen and it works fine for me 🤷
I don’t have English as an input, only Māori. It doesn’t prevent you using letters not in Māori, in fact it seems to work the same as English but allow the macrons. I noticed the same thing in Windows as well.
Ah! That’s what it was, as soon as I took English out, I can right-alt and do the ā.
Too easy! I suspect it can’t use more than one input source at once, and you’re supposed to switch between them using the Super+Space combo. So it was probably still set to English.