On Tue 29 Sep 2026 at 15:25:02 (-0400), Greg Wooledge 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.
Does /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us help? (± gb for the OP) Cheers, David.
