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kbct
- Help - Key Remap
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Show HN: I spent a year designing an low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
I had a similar problem with the Tecurs KB510 I got at work. The only way I found to type F1-F12 keys on Linux was to set up a hack with kbct [0] and the Super key... until I tried the configuration described in the gist you linked. Thanks a lot for that !
[0] https://github.com/samvel1024/kbct
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Linux utility to assign different keys to tap vs hold (like Karabiner does in macOS)
I use KBCT and encourage others to support it: https://github.com/samvel1024/kbct
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me right now
kbct
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
>Creating a "standardized experience" like Windows usually means that configurability goes right out the window. It's how you get abominations like dconf or the GNOME music player
I don't understand how you connected these dots and I'd suggest against calling things abominations. You don't have to use dconf or the GNOME music player, those aren't standardized. If someone does like them I think they're perfectly fine, they do exactly what they're advertised to do. It's also fine if you don't like them, they're just two options from the many configuration databases and media players that you can choose from.
>But why shouldn't I be able to run xbindkeys or sxhkd or whatever hotkey dameon I want?
In some ways you actually can but it depends on the hotkey daemon and how it's implemented. The reason for that is technical, those are implemented with X grabs which have a number of usability and security issues. There are a few key rebinding daemons that use evdev directly so they work with Wayland:
https://github.com/samvel1024/kbct
https://github.com/snyball/Hawck
But these also do have similar security issues to X key grabs, in that they effectively operate as keyloggers. If you're looking for an API that works purely within Wayland and lets unprivileged clients request key rebinding, that doesn't exist yet. Somebody would need to specify what that API looks like and figure out a good way to make it secure. What would the end goal of the API be, and how could the system (and by extension, the user) tell the difference between a legitimate hotkey daemon and a malicious keylogger? And would it actually be any better than the approach of snooping evdev? I don't know the answer to these questions but you may have more experience with this than I do.
- Keyboard customization tool for Linux
keyd
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Key remapping to vim navigation and more
I use keyd (https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd) and what I've done is remapped CapsLock down holding to a modifier key that allows me to use vim navigation and more. So when I press CapsLock down I can use jkl; for navigation. I've also added u and i as page up and down. For browser back and forward use n and m. Just pressing CapsLock acts as an esc press.
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Debugging touchpad issues with keyd remapper
I recently started using Asahi Linux on my M1 mac. I installed Fedora 39 Server and I use sway as my wm but these issues with keyd https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd appear even before I start sway.
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Show HN: I automated 1/2 of my typing
This is great. Is it possible to somehow use it with keyd, as I don't use autohotkey?
https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/
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Espanso incompatible with keyd key remapping
I'm using both [keyd](https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd) to remap some keys (Hold Capslock -> Hold Ctrl, and Press Capslock -> Press Esc) and espanso to insert some snippet.
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How to switch caps lock to escape properly
Try https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd works really well for linux.
- Input Remapper Question
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Some useful software customizations for my NyPhy Air60 (linux)
There's some customizations I did with keyd that could be useful for others. See here
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Toward a More Useful Keyboard
On Linux, I use keyd[1] and while I understand that keyd itelf could never run on the Mac, I'd love something that could take my keyd conf and make it work (even approximately) on the Mac.
[1]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
- Keyd: Linux Key Remapper
What are some alternatives?
input-remapper - 🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
rkvm - Virtual KVM switch for Linux machines
kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows.
compute-runtime - Intel® Graphics Compute Runtime for oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL™ Driver
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]
evsieve - A utility for mapping events from Linux event devices.
xkeysnail - Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment
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leddy - Linux LED controller for the Fnatic miniStreak.
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.