Getting degree sign in Ubuntu

[Lindsay]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 00:31 +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:
> > > 
> > > PS  There is a workaround if you only have a two button mouse...
> > > 
> > I do only have two mouse buttons, so what is the 'work around' please
> > Neil
> > Linz
> > > 
> 
> Well, the one I was thinking of was to click both mouse buttons at the
> same time;  *if* your system is configured to do it, it will interpret
> this as a middle button press.  (It lives in the xwindows configuration
> if you ever want to change it, along with a lot of keyboard and display
> stuff.)
> 
> However, other people have now pointed out that the normal Ctrl+V
> keypresses will also function as a 'paste' command in this context.  I
> think this is better than my original suggestion.
> 
> So;  select the character you want to insert by left clicking it once on
> the pallette, then move back to your document and just use Ctrl+V to
> insert it where you want.
> 
> Neil
> 

Ctrl V was the answer.  Thanks Neil
Linz