advice on keyboard remapping sofware in linux

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  1. keyd

    A key remapping daemon for linux.

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  3. kmonad

    An advanced keyboard manager

  4. kanata

    Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization

  5. keymapper

    A cross-platform context-aware key remapper. (by houmain)

  6. xremap

    Key remapper for X11 and Wayland

  7. AutoKey

    AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

  8. linux

    https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools is another software to consider in the area of remapping keys. I don't think any of its existing plugins are context-aware enough for your window/program based functions, but maybe you could write your own plugins to achieve that?

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