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LUAKIT(1) User Commands LUAKIT(1) NAME Luakit - Fast, small, WebKit based browser framework extensible by Lua. SYNOPSIS luakit [OPTION] [URI] DESCRIPTION Luakit is a highly configurable, browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible by Lua and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people with too much time on their hands who want to have fine-grained control over their web browsers be- haviour and interface. Modes Luakit can run in various modes, which specify how the user interacts with the browser. Normal mode This is the default mode when Luakit is started. You can load URIs, open tabs and windows, access to other modes, etc. All mode Special meta-mode in which the bindings are present in all modes. Insert mode When selecting form fields Luakit will enter the insert mode which allows you to enter text in form fields without acciden- tally triggering normal mode bindings. Passthrough mode Luakit will pass every key event to the WebView until the user presses Escape. This is useful for using webpage shortcuts. Command mode Enter commands. Every action in Luakit is a command, so basi- cally you can do anything from there. Lua mode Execute arbitrary Lua commands within the Luakit environment. Userscripts Luakit is highly extensible with userscripts written in Lua. These scripts may provide additional modes. Some are embedded by default. You will need to load the userscript to use its features. See the CONFIGU- RATION section for more details. OPTIONS Help options -h, --help Show help options. --help-all Show all help options. --help-gtk Show GTK+ help options. Application options -k, --check Check configuration file and exit. -c, --config=FILE Configuration file to use. -n, --nonblock Fork Luakit into the background. -U, --nounique Ignore libunique bindings. -u, --uri=URI URI(s) to load at startup. -v, --verbose Print debugging output. -V, --version Print version and exit. --display=DISPLAY X display to use. KEYBINDINGS Luakit is fully usable with keyboard. Default bindings should be famil- iar to users of Emacs and Vim; nonetheless a lot of keyboards and mouse shortcuts are shared with popular web browsers. Pressing : will open the command prompt. You can enter commands from there. You can view the current list of bindings in Luakit's help page with the :help command. Some bindings have an uppercase version which will behave somewhat dif- ferently. Some come with userscripts, so you will need to have the ap- propriate userscript loaded to use it. Here follows a list of some noteworthy default bindings. ZZ Quit and save the session. ZQ Quit without saving the session. o, O Open specified URIs. If uppercase, edit current URI. t, T Open specified URIs in new tab. If uppercase, edit current URI. w, W Open specified URIs in new window. If uppercase, edit current URI. <Left>, <Down>, <Up>, <Right> h, j, k, l Scroll page vertically and horizontally. <Home>, <End> gg, G Go to top / bottom of the page. [count]% Go to [count] percent of the page. f, F Enter follow mode. Use numbers or text to open corresponding links. Use arrow to navigate between links. If uppercase, open in new tab. Requires follow userscript. i Enter insert mode. In some case form fields may not receive characters; press an arrow key to insert characters correctly. gi Enter insert mode in the first form field. Requires go_input userscript. <F11> Toggle fullscreen. +, - Change the zoom level. = Restore zoom level. p, P Open URI from clipboard. If uppercase, open in new tab. y Yank current URI to clipboard. <Ctrl>x, <Ctrl>a Decrement / increment last number in URI. This is useful for fo- rum threads or any ordered website. H, L Go back / forward in the browser history. <Ctrl><Shift><Tab>, <Ctrl><Tab> <Ctrl><PageDown>, <Ctrl><PageUp> gT, gt Go to previous / next tab. <Alt>[0-9] Go to tab #, where # is between 0 and 9. <, > Reorder tabs. Requires taborder userscript. [count]d Close [count] tabs. u Restore last closed tab. gy Duplicate current tab. gh, gH Open homepage. If uppercase, open in new tab. r, R Reload current page. If uppercase, skip cache. <Ctrl>c Stop loading the current page. <Ctrl>z Enter passthrough mode. Use ESC to return to normal mode. M[a-zA-Z0-9] Associate current URI to quickmark #, where # is an ASCII letter or a digit. Requires quickmarks userscript. go[a-zA-Z0-9], gn[a-zA-Z0-9], gw[a-zA-Z0-9] Open specified quickmark in current tab / new tab / new window. Requires quickmarks userscript. B Add current URI to bookmarks. gb, gB Open bookmarks manager. If uppercase, open in new tab. /, ? Search / reverse search for a string on current page. n, N Find next / previous result from search. COMMANDS All bindings actually refer to commands. However, some commands do not have bindings associated by default. If completion userscript is used, you can autocomplete commands by pressing <TAB> by default. Once again, you should consult the configuration files to get an exhaustive list. The currently available functions may be displayed from the help view, which you can open with the :help command. Here follows some noteworthy commands: :bookmarks Display and search bookmarks. :downloads Open Download page, which displays all downloads along with their status. :dump Download current page. :save Save the complete page as a single mhtml file. :help Display all commands and bindings, along with their description. The help page also features some details about modes. :history Display and search history. :inspect Launch WebKit inspector. Use :inspect! to toggle off. :nohlsearch Disable search highlighting. :qmarks Display the quickmarks list. :tabhistory Display the tab history. :view-source Display page source code. Use :view-source! to toggle off. FILES Luakit will load configuration files from the following folders in pri- ority order: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/luakit $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/luakit Default configuration files: binds.lua The keyboard and mouse bindings. globals.lua General configuration, like home page, search engines, user agent, per-domain properties, cookies policy. modes.lua All default modes are set in this file. rc.lua Main configuration files. All other files are loaded from there. theme.lua, Colors definition. webview.lua WebKit related. window.lua Status bar, windows and tabs behaviour. Embedded userscript will be loaded from $XDG_DATA_DIRS/luakit/lib. All browsing-related files are stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/luakit. All of are created if needed and if they do not exist. Depending on the user- scripts you are using, you may find: bookmarks.db An SQLite3 database containing your complete bookmark list. If you want to synchronise your bookmarks between your different systems, just share this file. You can use a symbolic link if the file is not stored in the required folder. cookies.db This file contains all details needed for websites keeping track of your status, like login information. Delete this file once you are finished with browsing if you are not on your personal system. history.db Your browsing history. Delete this file once you are finished with browsing if you are not on your personal system. quickmarks A plain text file saving your quickmarks. The structure is ex- tremely simple: each line is a single quickmark; first character is the quickmark shortcut and may be one of [a-zA-Z0-9]; second character is a space; the remaining part is the URI. CONFIGURATION If you do not want to stick to the default configuration and want to benefit from the flexibility and extensibility of Luakit, you can fully configure it from the Lua configuration files. If you do not want to start from scratch, you may use default configu- ration files and tweak them to fit your needs. Use the following com- mand to copy configuration file to your home folder: cp -r $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/luakit $XDG_CONFIG_HOME You can now edit the new files. Configuration should be quite straight- forward, even if you do not know much about Lua. AUTHORS Luakit was mainly developed by Mason Larobina <ma- son.larobina@gmail.com>. Other contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file. This man page was written by Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>. 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