Scrivener on Ubuntu/Wine: composite key

Scrivener Scrivener on Linux (Unofficial)
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Hi there!
I tried to install Scrivener on Ubuntu with Wine to test it before, maybe, buy it.
Everything works fine except for the “ñ”. On Ubuntu I configured my composite touch (WinD) but Scrivener comports freaky with that.
(1)When I do AltGr+WinD+~ I see the ~ underlined, but when I press N, everything disappears!
(2)But if I press AltGr+WinD+g+g, then I change tab, come again on the tab I was writing, I can write one ñ… but only one! If I try to write a second one, it does like in (1).

I thought it was maybe a configuration in Wine, but everything works fine in Notepad++ installed with Wine.
I thought it could be a bad choice of the composite key, so I tried with “menu key” instead of “WinD”… but it does the same things.
Did anyone already see that comportment?

Thanks!

Edit: also, I can’t open the “Character Map” window… When clicking on Edit>Writing tools>Character Map, it happens nothing…

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I found a way to work around this problem. I saved a new correction: “~n” to “ñ”…
But I don’t know why I can’t open the Character Map.

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I can confirm that character map doesn’t open from Scrivener when running it under Wine (Fedora in my case). On actual Windows it opens the system Character map app. Might the path be hard coded? :thinking:

Although I have to admit that it’s the first time I’ve heard about character map being accessible from inside Scrivener. :slight_smile: Personally, I usually use the standard way to open this app on the system.

As for the composite key, that’s my workaround exactly. :grin: Autocorrection in this case is our friend.