How can I remap "special" keys in xkb?
8,813
The solution is to create AltGr
encodings in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbol/us
, but swap most keys using /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev
instead.
(However, I haven't worked out how to map Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 to XF86MonBrightnessDown and XF86MonBrightnessUp yet.)
Related videos on Youtube
Comments
-
Sparhawk over 1 year
I've been trying to migrate my keyboard mapping from xmodmap to xkb, but I'm having some trouble. I can see where to modify the "normal" keys, in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbol/us
for me, but this file seems devoid of "special" keys, including modifiers.The full remapping that I wish to achieve is:
- Swap Left Ctrl and Shift
- Replace Right Ctrl with Shift
- Replace Right Shift with '
- Replace ' with /
- Right blank key (keycode 97) to Menu
- Left blank key (keycode 92) to AltGr
- AltGr encodings:
- keycode 20 = minus underscore minus underscore endash emdash
- keycode 60 = period greater period greater ellipsis
- Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 control brightness
- keycode 148 = XF86MonBrightnessDown NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessDown
- keycode 179 = XF86MonBrightnessUp NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessUp
How can I achieve this?
-
Admin almost 11 yearsTake a look at my answer Here, see if it helps.
-
Admin almost 11 years@Mitch I actually did see that already, but as far as I can tell that is to create Xmodmaps? I already have an Xmodmap (which I find much more transparent than xkb), but I'm trying to move to xkb for several reasons: to have specific simultaneous keymaps for multiple keyboards; and to apply this keymap on startup rather than having to reconnect and trigger with a udev rule.