[webhat]

"I literally copy-paste the middot every time. Who has a middot key?"

I did too, until I found.

http://middot.net/

[zeveb]

As that site indicates, in X.org with the defaults, '·' is easily typed with 'Compose . -', 'Compose . ^' or 'Compose ^ .' (this should also work from the console in Debian, at least, which uses xkb bindings throughout).

I love the Compose key, and don't think I'll ever use a desktop without it.