On 2020-10-31 at 15:42, Thomas George wrote:
I want to assign a unicode character to an unused key on my keyboard.
For example F6 currently is assigned ~, name of my home directory. I
would like to change it to ♠.
I have tried xmodmap -e keycode 71 = U2660 and several other variations
without success
Looking at the EXAMPLES section of the xmodmap man page, I see only a
few examples of command-line invocation using '-e', and all of them
have the expression in quotes. Based on that, the first thing I'd
suggest would be:
# xmodmap -e "keycode 71 = U2660"
Was that one of the variations you tried?
The second thing - have you verified that F6 is keycode 71? On my
computer (according to a test just now with xev), it's 72, and keycode
71 is F5.
(I haven't tried remapping this myself, as I don't know offhand how to
reverse it and I don't have a discardable test environment on hand, so I
can't testify as to whether these work for me.)