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I'm trying to make a shortcut to send, for example, the universal quantifier symbol, ∀ (U+2200). Xdotool's own documentation doesn't really explain this.

wjandrea
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For the above symbol, there are two options:

  1. Xdotool generates the character and types it:

    xdotool key U2200

  2. The shell (Bash) generates the character, and Xdotool types it:

    xdotool type $'\u2200'
wjandrea
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  • Also `ctrl+shift+u` then `2200` will input a unicode symbol. Or in [KDE set a compose sequence](https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey) to do it. – pbhj Feb 27 '19 at 20:17
  • @pbhj How would you do that in Xdotool though? – wjandrea May 06 '20 at 16:59
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What I ended up doing is:

echo -n "${TEXT}"|xsel -b

xdotool key ctrl+v

This fills the mouse buffer, then pastes it.

Nmath
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Rich Graham
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  • Why not just `xdotool type "$TEXT"`? And how do you generate the Unicode character in the first place? It's usually a good idea to avoid non-ASCII text in source code. – wjandrea Nov 30 '22 at 17:19
  • Minor thing, but avoid using `echo` on arbitrary text; use `printf '%s'` instead. If for example, `TEXT='-e'`, you won't get anything printed since `-e` is a flag to `echo` and there's no way to escape it properly. – wjandrea Nov 30 '22 at 17:20