This article assumes you know…
the basics about the qutebrowser web browser
and
how
to create and populate a
qutebrowser
config.py
configuration file.
To view qutebrowser’s
built-in
key bindings,
view
line 2123
and below
in
Infinite Ink’s
qutebrowser’s Template config.py.
The following
is the beginning of that part of
the
default config.py.
The two emphasized lines above make it possible to use the + and - keys to zoom in and zoom out on a web page.
If you create a key binding, you may want to start it with
a comma (,) because
@The-Compiler (Florian Bruhin),
qutebrowser’s main developer, has said
that
default key
bindings
will never start with a comma.
💡 | If you start
most of
your user-defined key bindings with a
comma ( |
Because I’m used to using
config.py.
config.bind('<Ctrl-=>', 'zoom-in')
config.bind('<Ctrl-->', 'zoom-out')
Because I
often
forget to run :adblock-update,
I put the following ,au binding in my
config.py.
config.bind(',au', 'adblock-update')
Now, when I type , in normal mode this shows up
near
the top of
the
alphabetically-sorted
keyhint widget
and reminds me to
periodically run this.
I use ,vs
to view the source of the current
web page in
the editor that I’ve specified
with qutebrowser’s
c.editor.command.
Here’s how I set this up
on my Windows devices:
c.editor.command = ['code.cmd', '-n', '{file}', '-w']
config.bind(',vs', 'view-source --edit')
To learn about
qutebrowser’s
c.editor.command setting,
see
section 1.2
in
Infinite Ink’s
qutebrowser Tips and Fragments.
To learn about VS Code, which is launched with code.cmd on Windows,
see Infinite Ink’s
#vscode Portal.
Because I prefer old.reddit.com to reddit.com, I created the following key binding.
config.bind (',r2o', 'open https://old.reddit.com/{url:path}')
If this
is
in your config.py
and if you are viewing a
reddit.com
page,
for example
reddit.com/r/qutebrowser,
you can type
,r2o
to redirect
it to
the corresponding
old.reddit.com URL,
for example
old.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser.
💡 | The mnemonic I use to remember this is reddit 2 old.reddit. |
Infinite Ink’s qutebrowser Userscripts on Windows includes the following key bindings, each of which launches a userscript.
config.bind(',qenv', 'spawn -u -o "qb-env.cmd"')
config.bind(',t', 'spawn -u tumblelog-wrapper.cmd')
Thanks to LordOfTheAssclowns for posting the following in the reddit thread old.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/mnptey/getting_rid_of_cookie_consent_barspopups/.
config.bind(',ko', 'jseval (function () { '+
' var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll("body *");'+
''+
' for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {'+
' var pos = getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position;'+
' if (pos === "fixed" || pos == "sticky") {'+
' elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);'+
' }'+
' }'+
'})();');
If you put this in your config.py, you can type
,ko
in
normal mode
to kill overlays
on qutebrowser’s current web page.
Thanks to rien333 for posting the following key binding in the r/qutebrowser thread titled “Is there a way to open youtube links in mpv while you are on the youtube page?”
config.bind(',mpv', 'spawn --detach mpv {url}')
To learn about mpv, which is
a free, open source, and cross-platform media player,
see mpv.io.
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:bind commandTo view all key bindings, run the following within qutebrowser.
:bind
This command lists both built-in and user-defined key bindings.
:unbind commandTo unbind a key binding, for example Ctrl+T, during the current qutebrowser session, run something like this:
:unbind <Ctrl-T>
To permanently unbind a key binding, put something like this
in your config.py:
config.unbind('<Ctrl-T>')
💡 | I unbind Ctrl+T because I’m training myself to use Shift+o (i.e. upper case O) to open a URL in a new tab (rather than using Ctrl+T followed by o, which is what I used to do). |
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