A key remapping daemon for Linux
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2 days ago
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| github.com
| HN
garciansmith
3 hours ago
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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).
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analog_daddy
3 hours ago
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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.
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garciansmith
3 hours ago
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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.
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m463
2 hours ago
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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.

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resonious
2 hours ago
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Japanese keyboard layout + kmonad is how I cope.
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Refreeze5224
2 hours ago
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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.
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lostmsu
1 hour ago
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What are the differences between this and https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper ?
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mkolassa
37 minutes ago
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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.

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