♻️ Termux Extra Keys – When we use termux, when we have to use keys like control alt or up or down arrow, we use the touch keyboard that comes standard with termux. But in this touch keyboard, we don’t have a right arrow and left arrow as well as other keys that we can see on the normal keyboard. To access additional keys when using termux, many users, as well as YouTubers, install a hacker keyboard. In my opinion, it’s just a waste of storage, and replacing my google keyboard with a new complicated keyboard just to use termux is too much effort for me. ♻️
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Enabling Functions Keys :
The following command enables the function keys and adds additional functions to the row containing 7 function keys of the touch keyboard.
Copy and paste the command below.
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The following command enables all keys in termux.
You should use all these keyboard commands if you absolutely want to, otherwise, it will break your view of termux, so make a note of it.
Supported keys
Each key “item” can be either a string (such as ‘|’, ‘/’ or ‘=’) or one of the values listed below. These values are defined in ExtraKeysView.java and the list of values (without possible synonyms) is:
- CTRL (“special key”)
- ALT (“special key”)
- FN (“special key”)
- SPACE
- ESC
- TAB
- HOME
- END
- PGUP
- PGDN
- INS
- DEL
- BKSP
- UP
- LEFT
- RIGHT
- DOWN
- ENTER
- BACKSLASH
- QUOTE
- APOSTROPHE
- F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12
- KEYBOARD (Hide the keyboard)
- DRAWER (Open app drawer)
Touch Keyboard
Using keys like Alt, Ctrl, and Esc is necessary to work with the CLI terminal. Termux touch keyboards do not include one. For this purpose, Termux uses the volume down key to emulate the Ctrl key. For example, pressing Volume Down+L on a touch keyboard sends the same input as pressing Ctrl+L on a hardware keyboard. Termux Extra Keys
The result of using Ctrl in combination with a key depends on the program you are using, but the following shortcuts work for many command line tools:
- Ctrl+A → Move cursor to the beginning of line
- Ctrl+C → Abort (send SIGINT to the) current process
- Ctrl+D → Logout of a terminal session
- Ctrl+E → Move cursor to the end of line
- Ctrl+K → Delete from cursor to the end of line
- Ctrl+U → Delete from cursor to the beginning of line
- Ctrl+L → Clear the terminal
- Ctrl+Z → Suspend (send SIGTSTP to) current process
- Ctrl+W → Clear prompt before word (a word is a set of characters after a space)
- Ctrl+alt+C → Open new session (only works in Hacker’s Keyboard)
- Volume Up+E → Escape key
- Volume Up+T → Tab key
- Volume Up+1 → F1 (and Volume Up+2 → F2, etc)
- Volume Up+0 → F10
- Volume Up+B → Alt+B, back a word when using readline
- Volume Up+F → Alt+F, forward a word when using readline
- Volume Up+X → Alt+X
- Volume Up+W → Up arrow key
- Volume Up+A → Left arrow key
- Volume Up+S → Down arrow key
- Volume Up+D → Right arrow key
- Volume Up+L → | (the pipe character)
- Volume Up+H → ~ (the tilde character)
- Volume Up+U → _ (underscore)
- Volume Up+P → Page Up
- Volume Up+N → Page Down
- Volume Up+. → Ctrl+\ (SIGQUIT)
- Volume Up+V → Show the volume control
- Volume Up+Q → Show extra keys view
- Volume Up+K → Another variant to toggle extra keys view
