keyd
A key remapping daemon for linux. (by rvaiya)
xkeysnail
Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment (by mooz)
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keyd
Posts with mentions or reviews of keyd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
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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
xkeysnail
Posts with mentions or reviews of xkeysnail.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
FYI: You can enable them in Gnome with Gnome-Tweaks. Apparently a very recent version of Gnome dropped this functionality for reasons that are beyond my understanding (but that's often the case when I look at the decisions that the Gnome devs make).
However, getting the Control -> Command/Super thing to work is much trickier. The best way is to use this: https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
However when I tried that, I ran into all kinds of weird behaviours all over the OS. Also, it doesn't work with Wayland.
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Everything is gone. EVERYTHING
If the likes of https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail/issues/43 are still a going concern then it's not quite as "everywhere" as one would like, and I presume that issue is a fundamental one (i.e. it doesn't sound like XKeySnail gets first refusal on key events).
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Emacs + a nice theme + editing features is awesome! (plus some questions about extra configuration)
And I use XKeySnail to have the basic Emacs keys everywhere. I'm sure there are others, but it does enough to keep me happy.
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Would you still recommend EXWM in 2022?
https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail or the fork of it, I forget it's name, will allow you to do the same as exwm's simulation keys with any window manager.
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What's the alternative of Authotkey ?
Thanks for the suggestion guys. I decided to go with xkeysnail ( https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail/ ). So far so good.
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komokana: Automatic application-aware keyboard layer switching
Similar options for Linux users are keyd and xkeysnail
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How can I make my keyboard layout change automatically when I focus on a application?
https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail or something similar ?
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How to Bind Super + C and Super + V to Copy and Paste in Terminal ?
Bind everything you want: https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
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What's the best way to remap mod key(e.x. ctrl)+hjkl to arrow keys
xkeysnail is not bad in the two sense, however, there are some application do can distinguish them, say, chrome and neovide
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Is there any way to set application specific keyboard shortcuts on linux?
If you're using x11, there's xkeysnail
What are some alternatives?
When comparing keyd and xkeysnail you can also consider the following projects:
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows.
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]
warpd - A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer
linux
espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
AutoKey - AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
kanata - Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization
profiler - Firefox Profiler — Web app for Firefox performance analysis