I recently did a similar overview of terminals since I needed to pass all keypresses to the terminal, I ended up with something like this in xterm, but I hear

I recently did a similar overview of terminals since I needed to pass all keypresses to the terminal, I ended up with something like this in xterm, but I hear it works in urxvt as well: .Xdefaults-localhost *VT100.Translations: #override \ Shift<Key>Return: string("shift return")\n\ Ctrl<Key>Return: string("ctrl return")\n\ Alt<Key>Return: string("alt return")\n\ Super<Key>Return: string("super return") Here are the escape sequences used by Kitty for sending modifiers to the shell from the terminal: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-extensions.asciidoc#keyboard-handling https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-ext... (thanks aumerle)