Does urxvt support user defined keys?

Jesper Anderson jesper at pobox.com
Wed Mar 21 21:21:37 CET 2018


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:07 PM, Mun <mjelists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using Gnome and miss the konsole terminal from KDE.  The one
> feature I miss most of all is konsole's .keytab file where one can
> define a sequence of characters to be entered for a single key press.
> For example, I could define F8 to be "Hello, World", and if I pressed
> F8 that string would be entered as if I typed it myself on the
> keyboard.

In .Xdefaults, add a line such as:

Urxvt.keysym.F8: string:Hello, World

Then merge the xrdb (xrdb -merge .Xdefaults)

The man page has more details.

// Jesper



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