A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by joooscha » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

A key remapping daemon for Linux
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Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

#2

Post by joooscha » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

I used this to remap the space key to be a modifier key and thought it might be useful for some.

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by garciansmith » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

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).

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by analog_daddy » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC

garciansmith wrote: post #3

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).

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.

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by garciansmith » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 1:46 AM UTC

analog_daddy wrote: post #4

garciansmith wrote: post #3

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).

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.

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.

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by smallmancontrov » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:07 AM UTC

Thanks keyd! You replaced a number of utterly shameful and janktacular python scripts.

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by m463 » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

garciansmith wrote: post #5

analog_daddy wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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.

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by resonious » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:17 AM UTC

analog_daddy wrote: post #4

garciansmith wrote: post #3

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).

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.

Japanese keyboard layout + kmonad is how I cope.

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by Refreeze5224 » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC

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.

Re: A key remapping daemon for Linux

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Post by zarflax » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:40 AM UTC

Now I can finally reimplement spacebar heating!