Does urxvt support user defined keys?

Mun mjelists at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 22:00:58 CET 2018


Hi,


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:21 PM, Jesper Anderson <jesper at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the quick reply and for confirming the feature!  I will
definitely install and try urxvt.

Regards,

-- 
MJ



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