Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 19:30:00 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > Whereas, wierdly:-
> >
> > chris$ xte 'key ='
> > Unable to resolve keysym for '='
> > Unable to resolve keysym for '='
> > chris$
>
> The man page isn't very helpful, is it? It says
>
> key k Press and release key k
>
> But it doesn't give you any hints about what to pass as 'k', other
> than the "SOME USEFUL KEYS" section. That lists Home, Left, Up,
> and so on. It doesn't say anything about Equals, so that leaves
> brute force.
>
> hobbit:~$ xte 'key ='
> Unable to resolve keysym for '='
> Unable to resolve keysym for '='
> hobbit:~$ xte 'key Equals'
> Unable to resolve keysym for 'Equals'
> Unable to resolve keysym for 'Equals'
> hobbit:~$ xte 'key Equal'
> Unable to resolve keysym for 'Equal'
> Unable to resolve keysym for 'Equal'
> hobbit:~$ xte 'key equals'
> Unable to resolve keysym for 'equals'
> Unable to resolve keysym for 'equals'
> hobbit:~$ xte 'key equal'
> hobbit:~$ =
>
> Severely under-documented.
The key name for the character I want is quotedbl. So the error shows as
follows:-
chris$ xte 'key quotedbl'
2chris$ 2
You can use the actual character for letter and digit keys, e.g.:-
chris$ xte 'key a'
achris$ a
... and I've found a way to get ", as follows:-
chris$ xte 'keydown Shift_L';xte 'key 2';xte 'keyup Shift_L';
"chris$ "
--
Chris Green
ยท
