Uzbl Keybindings
These keybindings are totally customizable. You can edit
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/uzbl/config
to modify them or add more.
Navigating the Web
- o
- Open a URL
- O
- Edit the current URL
- S
- Stop loading
- b
- Go back
- m
- Go forward
- U
- Search the history
- r
- Reload the current page
- fl
- Select a link or form element using the keyboard
- Fl
- Select a link to open in a new window using the keyboard
- w
- Open a new window
- c
- Clone the current window
Navigating the Page
- j
- Scroll down
- k
- Scroll up
- h
- Scroll left
- l
- Scroll right
- <Page_Up>
- <Ctrl>f
- Page up
- <Page_Down>
- <Ctrl>b
- Page down
- <<
- <Home>
- Scroll to top
- >>
- <End>
- Scroll to bottom
- /
- Search the current page
- ?
- Search the current page in reverse
- n
- Next search result
- n
- Previous search result
Modes
Uzbl's default configuration is modal (although a completely modeless
configuration should be possible).
In "command" mode, everything you type is interpreted by uzbl as a
command.
In "insert" mode, everything you type is passed to the web page, for
form input or the web page's keybindings.
- <Ctrl>i
- i
- Switch to insert mode
- <Escape>
- <Ctrl>[
- Return to command mode
- Clear the current command
uzbl-tabbed
TODO: Write me.
Clipboard
The terminology here is a bit confusing, please look at
this article
if you're not familiar with X selections.
For these commands to work, xclip
must be installed.
- yu
- Copy the current URL to the primary selection
- yU
- Copy the URL of the hovered link to the primary selection
- yy
- Copy the page title to the primary selection
- p
- Go to the URL in the primary selection
- P
- Go to the URL in the clipboard selection
- 'p
- Open the URL in the primary selection in a new window
- <Shift><Insert>
- Command mode: Paste the primary selection into the status bar
- Insert mode: Paste the primary selection into the active form
element.
Advanced Commands
- s
- Set a variable
- :
- Issue an uzbl command
- !reload
- Reload configuration file
- <Ctrl><Mod1>t
- Open a terminal that prints events and can issue commands to uzbl