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vrgovinda

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Registered: 2023-06-14

Posts: 29  

rupee currency symbol (₹)

Hi all/

I got into a problem here.

I have a 104 key keyboard with a L-shaped Enter key US layout.
Off late, the rupee currency symbol (on 4) hasn't been working. It used to work in the past.

OS: Excalibur
DE: Xfce
Input source: English (India, with rupee)

I will be grateful if the rupee currency symbol (₹) can be made to work again using Alt + 4

regards,
vrgovinda

Last edited by vrgovinda (Yesterday 11:24:11)

RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

Posts: 307  

Re: rupee currency symbol (₹)

The Compose key held down then the = key hit letting the Compose go then a shift key held for a capital R give me the ₹ character.  I use this script to enable the Compose key as the useless to me Caps lock key in LXQT in its autostart option in the settings, KDE when I used to use it had the option to enable directly in its settings. Perhaps you may want to check in your settings on xfce to see if an option exists for it or run the command in the script as normal user in a Terminal then try the combination for its display.

zeus@9600k:~$ cat bin/compose_key.sh 
#!/bin/bash
# enable compose key on login when using LXQT

setxkbmap -option "compose:caps"

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,968  

Re: rupee currency symbol (₹)

I think only Gnome, KDE and Mate include a keyboard layout setting for English(India) with rupee. I couldn't find it in xfce or lxqt. Other option is to customize as described above or similar.

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 1,725  

Re: rupee currency symbol (₹)

Afaict, the Indian keyboard layout (setxkbmap in) seems to have a generic Rupee key code ( U2089 = ₹ ) bound to Right-Alt + Shift + 4.

tux_99

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Registered: 2025-06-17

Posts: 135  

Re: rupee currency symbol (₹)

You can create an /etc/X11/Xmodmap (if you want it for all users) or ~/.Xmodmap (just for your own user) file with the keymappings you need.

To check which keymap corresponds to a key on your keyboard run xev in a terminal.

A mapping looks like this (this adds the '©' symbol on the 'c' key on my keyboard using the right Windows key as modifier):

keysym Super_R = Mode_switch
keysym    c = c C copyright

See also the Xmodmap man-page.

Last edited by tux_99 (Today 00:29:04)

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kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 755  

Re: rupee currency symbol (₹)

you could test this with

setxkbmap in -variant eng

then pressing

Alt-GR

and

4

evokes

rupee

symbol, but this is on a

italian

keyboard, dont know if this makes any difference.

Last edited by kapqa (Today 07:29:00)