A key remapping daemon for Linux(github.com)
23 points byjoooscha2 days ago |6 comments
garciansmith3 hours ago
I find this kind of keyboard remapping essential when using a laptop now that I'm used to using an external keyboard with QMK firmware at my desk (though these days I use Kmonad).
analog_daddy2 hours ago
Oh my god! I hate using anything that is not my keyboard anymore. Laptops are not ‘lap’tops for me since I will just be slow without my keyboard. The split keyboard with many thumb keys is tough to achieve on laptop.
garciansmith2 hours ago
Yeah, that is the downside to making your keyboard your own. Anytime I use someone else's computer I always spend a few seconds wondering why I just turned caps lock on and wrote a bunch of gibberish.
m4632 hours ago
I had a friend with a kinesis dvorak keyboard.

Happily he would put it in "guest" qwerty mode when I had to type on it. It was hard enough typing in a cereal bowl.

resonious2 hours ago
Japanese keyboard layout + kmonad is how I cope.
Refreeze52242 hours ago
This is fantastic. Works perfectly right off the bat. I have so much trouble just getting capslock to be control consistently in Linux, and this made it easy.
lostmsu54 minutes ago
What are the differences between this and https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper ?
mkolassa8 minutes ago
From what I can see in their readme, this is basically a key remapping utility without any of the advanced macro functionality that Input Remapper has.

For example, I can create a macro in Input Remapper that is bound to the F12 key and will press keys 1, 2, and 3 in order at a certain rate and repeat for as long as I hold down that F12 key.

This utility would just allow me to remap a key to another without that repeat or timing functionality.

joooscha2 days ago
I used this to remap the space key to be a modifier key and thought it might be useful for some.
smallmancontrov2 hours ago
Thanks keyd! You replaced a number of utterly shameful and janktacular python scripts.
zarflax1 hour ago
Now I can finally reimplement spacebar heating!