kanata VS xremap

Putting all of these together you get a layered keyboard layout. You can find many samples on keymapdb.com, including Kenkyo, the layout I put together during my journey learning all the concepts discussed in this article. There you will find examples on how to properly implement HRMs, using software like Kanata and keyd, as well as opinionated implementations of the aforementioned custom layers, which you can use as is or as inspiration for your own layers.

So happy to read this because I don't see it mentioned often enough.

I have a ErgoDox EZ, and I still prefer using my Framework 13 (with Kanata![0]) because having my thumbs navigate the trackpad is so convenient even with a keyboard-driven setup.

[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

I don’t know Kanata, but you need to find out which key codes are sent for the multimedia functions in order to remap them. This file [0] (linked from [1]) contains the key names Katana knows, and it has entries like “VolumeUp”. You could try to remap those to the respective function key.

There are some keyboards, however, which send multimedia commands via USB “out of band” from normal key codes, and which therefore cannot be remapped that way.

[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/parser/src/keys/mo...

[1] https://jtroo.github.io/config.html#key-names

[Unit] Description=Kanata keyboard remapper Documentation=https://github.com/jtroo/kanata [Service] Environment=PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin Environment=DISPLAY=:0 Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/sh -c 'exec $$(which kanata) --cfg $${HOME}/.config/kanata/config.kbd' Restart=no [Install] WantedBy=default.target

Gotta give a shoutout to kanata[1] which I have used daily for years at this point after giving up on QMK-powered keyboards.

QMK itself is great, but I was never able to find a non-columnar split ISO keyboard to use it with. Eventually I reluctantly settled on the Logitech K860[2] and I'm now happily using my favourite features from QMK with kanata at the software level.

[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

[2]: If I'm behind the times and there is now a QMK-compatible keyboard that looks like this, please let me know!

This is not in Emacs, but if I can't modify my keyboard's firmware (e.g on a laptop), I use Kanata https://github.com/jtroo/kanata. It works by creating a virtual keyboard in Linux (and uses a filter driver or process hooks in Windows), so it can work in any program as they just see a normal keyboard.

I'm using this successfully: https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap

I could use some external key remappers like xremap. But I'm already using kanata and I can't use two key remappers for the same keyboards (kanata (or kmonad for that matter) doesn't allow application-specific remaps).

If they are, it seems that https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap should also work.

k0kubun/xremap worked on ChromeOS (developer mode).

As far as binding the J,K,H,L keys, have you considered using xremap? I use it the same way for a VIM like modifier.

I find xremap to be much friendlier.

Have a look at xremap for a general solution (X, Wayland, ...) to set up global key chords

(https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap. I am not the author, I am just a user with an interest on using the project on kde on wayland)

keyd looks pretty nice. I have been using xremap (https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap/) to do the following remaps: