Re: Character Map Startup Options?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 08:23 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I don't know what version of Gnome I have, but it's whatever is
> installed on my Ubuntu-64 Breezy computer, which has all the latest
> updates. (Planning on upgrading to Dapper after finals in a couple
> weeks.)
> 
> The Character Map utility default startup options suck. I am a
> linguistics major and I need to use it a lot. I need it to come up in
> View > By Unicode Block, and with the character displayed at 14 points
> instead of the default 20, and to automatically select my favorite IPA
> font, instead of the default Sans. I've searched everywhere looking for
> command-line options to make this happen, but documentation seems
> completely lacking on this. It is highly annoying to have to
> reconfigure it every time I launch it. Anyone know what the options
> are, or even if there are options, or where there is documentation
> explaining the options? Or if said options do not exist, then is there
> a Character Map replacement that does what I need?

I made a blog entry with details on making changes in a GNOME
application the easy way. It's at 
http://simos.info/blog/archives/552

This is somewhat technical, therefore someone in the might be able to
help out a bit.

Simos