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    That sounds like a cool feature. Won't be easy to do though. The first thing I thought of was xbindkeys. But that won't work because this doesn't allow passing on the keyevent or reacting only to keydown/keyup etc. So basically, I guess what you'd need is essentially a keylogger that reacts reacts to e.g. a keyup-LShift event and inserts a ( if no other key pressed. Commented Feb 16, 2016 at 22:42
  • You could use xcape, also as package in some distros, and do xcape -e 'Shift_L=parenleft' and xcape -e 'Shift_R=parenright' , but not sure it meets your needs / restrictions etc. Commented Feb 16, 2016 at 23:22
  • And that should likely be xcape -e 'Shift_L=parenleft;Shift_R=parenright' ... Commented Feb 16, 2016 at 23:41
  • @Sukminder xcape looks like exactly what I want, I will give that a try Commented Feb 17, 2016 at 0:48
  • @Sukminder just tried it, and it works exactly. Want to make that comment a response & I'll accept it? Commented Feb 17, 2016 at 0:56