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General keyboard topics, including keyboard hardware and keyboard functionality in software.

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What are c: and m: in xbindkeys configuration?

In the default example configuration for xbindkeys, there is an example of specifying keycodes directly: # set directly keycode (here control + f with my keyboard) #"xterm" # c:41 + m:0x4 ...
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Can I use whatever method GRUB uses to interact with keyboard inside the main system?

This question is effectively a follow-up to this one (to which I haven't got a satisfactory answer, also look there for the list of things I tried to fix the keyboard problem). My new laptop has a ...
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Unable to change keyboard layout?

What the hell? Installing a fresh Kali linux from an .iso file in VirtualBox. I’ve tried everything, localctl, dpkg-reconfigure, setxmap, even trying to force write in /etc/default/xorg.conf.d, etc… ...
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Laptop keyboard not working when trying to install various flavours of Ubuntu from live USB

Today I have acquired a new laptop, Maibenben X565, with pre-installed Kubuntu 22.10. Kubuntu 22.10 is no longer supported, so I wasn't able to update and install packages I need, and was forced to ...
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How to make one keystroke emit three Unicode characters in a custom keyboard layout in Linux Mint?

I have created a custom keyboard layout for my regional language by editing different files.  It works fine except for one problem.  One of the characters needs three Unicode characters in combination,...
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keyboard long press for special characters

Is there a way (in KDE) to get the long-press show special characters as in MacOS? I haven't used a Mac in nearly two years and I miss the feature when long pressing the "a" key, for ...
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My embedded application doesn't receive keyboard events (Linux framebuffer/Qt+QML application/systemd service/VNC server)

I need to remotely control a Qt / QML application on an embedded ARM instrument. I intended to do that using VNC. This doesn't work. An USB keyboard plugged in the instrument doesn't work either. NB: ...
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Stopping keyboard input from propagating to UI

I'm trying to set up a kiosk machine. This is a PC with a touchscreen and no physical mouse or keyboard attached during normal operation. Currently I'm working with Debian 12, but I plan to look ...
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Any possible methods to make the X86WebCam button work on Linux, just like on Windows, to enable/disable camera?

I am using a laptop with a camera switch in the keyboard, triggered by Fn. In most cases, since I am using dual boot with Windows 11, the camera is disabled using it. A red LED on the keyboard is on ...
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Logitech K120 Spanish keyboard composite key

I'm using MX Linux 23.2, my keyboard is Logitech K120 Spanish, during installation, I chose 104key-pc keyboard, but when trying to configure composite key to create accent char (such as á, à, ã, ç, ...
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on a Chromebook converted to Linux running KDE, how to fully move Ctrl to left-of-A?

I'm running a Chromebook converted to Linux with EndeavourOS and KDE. I'm having trouble repurposing the key-to-the-left-of-A (i.e., "Search") as the Control key completely. The closest ...
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When I press a function key on my laptop (volume, mute) it returns the keycode inside my terminal

Whenever I press a function key on my laptop the key-code gets returned (438u, 440u, 439u) on my tty emulator. I am using Arch Linux with Wayland, and my shell is zsh. Any idea where I can edit this ...
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How can I prohibit the capture of the mouse and keyboard?

I use Fedora 38 with KDE 5.27.9. I have an application, which is just a kind of remote desktop tool, which I need running all the time. And like all this type of applications, it has mouse and ...
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Plasma 5.27.8 Microsoft keyboard switch expression key to right ctrl

I have a Microsoft Designer Compact Keyboard. I recently installed Kubuntu and wanted to use the "expression key" key as a right ctrl. In windows it was a simple solution, changing the key ...
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HP PS/2 style keyboard preventing suspend

We have openSUSE Tumbleweed running on this machine. We had attached a wireless HP keyboard to the machine and suspend worked well from what I could tell. The issue is the keyboard was not taking keys ...
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Supporting extra LEDs on laptop keyboard

My laptop, an HP Elitebook 745 G6, has some extra keys on its keyboard: a presentation key, a call answer key, and a hangup key. Each of these keys has an LED on it. Where might I begin to look to be ...
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Why does my keyboard stop working after a screen lock?

I am using i3, betterlockscreen and Arch Linux. It is configured to lock itself after some minutes of inactivity. When this happens and I unlock, the keyboard does not appear to work thereafter. My ...
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Linux Mint: CTRL button not work for the first times after focus on any input window

When I change the focus to any window where text needs to be entered (it can be a terminal, an IDE, a browser, etc.), the first few times the CTRL+C or CTRL+V or CTRL+A combinations don't work and ...
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What should be done when a terminal application does not recognise some keyboard inputs? [duplicate]

I'm trying to play a very old Star Trek BSD game. It recognises characters that I type, but I occasionally make an error and want to use the arrow keys to correct it. This always fails. The pressing ...
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Map alt-e to ctrl-Tab. Mint, Xfce

I have Linux Mint, Xfce. I want to change tabs in Firefox by pressing Alt-e, rather than the default Ctrl-Tab. In order to do that I must remap those keys in the Xfce UI. In Xfce I can map a key to ...
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Map Alt-c to Ctrl-u

Im writing the ~/.bashrc file. I want to bind, Alt-c to Ctrl-u. So that when I press Alt-c. The functionality of Ctrl-u should happen. Ctrl-u clears the text on the terminal. So Alt-c should now do ...
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Delete key takes to start of line on gnome 45

My Delete key is misbehaving on Gnome. It was working fine on KDE and Windows. I tried to turn on screencast mode on VSCode, but it says that I have pressed DeleteHome even though I had only pressed ...
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keyboard detected but no keys events are received

I have this macro keyboard. On Windows it works as expected, but under Linux (both a Raspberry Pi 0w with the latest OS and a desktop installation of Debian 12) it doesn't. It is detected as far as I ...
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Linux randomly enables and disables tablet mode on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1

I use a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 (Gen 6) laptop. Currently, I'm on Fedora. In the GRUB menu, the internal keyboard works as expected. While using the OS, the keyboard is mainly unresponsive, but sometimes ...
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How to disable/enable keyboard?

Is there a command line (CLI) command to disable all keyboards on a machine, and then also a CLI command to re-enable them? I'm on a laptop with an internal and external keyboard, I need to disable/...
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Keyboard not working in GRUB

I have an MSI all-in-one PC with windows 10 and ubuntu. Usually I would start it up and go to ubuntu booting page and I had configured it in a way so that if I don't select any options after 3 seconds ...
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Switch audio output by keyboard in KDE Plasma

I would like to have a way of switching the audio output device (internal speakers/headphones to bluetooth speakers etc) by keyboard actions (which I usually can do without searching, finding and ...
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How can I set custom key assignments for autostart?

I used the xkbcomp $DISPLAY ~/.Xkbmap command to export the current settings. After that I changed some key assignments, created a file ~/.xprofile and added the line xkbcomp $HOME/.Xkbmap $DISPLAY to ...
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strange issue with my keyboard. Some of these keys will not work, and only on cinnamon. Plus help with remapping of a key

So i tested this on windows as well as with pop!_os (my distro) DE and another DE, and only on cinnamon i'm observing this. I'm on a german notebook and set up brazilian keyboard layout which, again, ...
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Dell G15 RGB keyboard lights not working on Pop_OS

More or less one week ago, I downloaded the mandatory updates on Windows 11 (I set my PC as dual boot with Windows 11 already came from the original manufacturer and I installed the Pop_OS) but last ...
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Pressing Ctrl + - does nothing

I have a mouse with 12 numbered buttons on the side. Button 11 is the - key. Due to this being a Razer mouse it is harder to rebind these keys on Linux (I know it's possible but I'd rather not go ...
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Keyboard, mouse and touchpad not working everytime booting the linux

Keyboard and mouse do not work after booting Linux. First, the keyboard is working when I turn on my laptop and enter the password for my sata. Then it will enter grub to choose the Os and the ...
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System76 Boring Backlight, how to control it?

I ever dislike the keyboards with lights, today after firmware update on my NS5x_NS7xPU the keyboard..become "with backlight". How to turn off? I have tried this command as root sh -c "...
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How to disable annoying autocomplete popup on Fedora Linux?

I'm running Fedora Linux 37 on a laptop computer with a touch screen. Occasionally, some process or something triggers and I start seeing this really obnoxious text autocomplete prompt whenever I type ...
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Strange Detachable Keyboard Behavior on NextBook NXW9QC132B tablet/netbook

I have this netbook with a detachable keyboard. It uses usb protocol over some springloaded pins. For a reason that I can not figure, the detachable keyboard only works in Linux when you do the ...
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How to setup "Windows" and "menu" keys in pure Linux terminal

When using pure Linux terminal how can I get the Windows (Super) and menu keys events in Emacs? I have several functions attached to them, they work in GUI mode in Gnome, but in pure terminal I just ...
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How can I prevent Linux OS from waking up from sleep mode by pressing buttons?

I often switch my Fedora Linux computer into sleep mode. However, I do not want it to wake up when pressing any button on the keyboard (except for the Power button). What can I do in order to achieve ...
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PageUp not working in GTA V

So i have got an Asus TUF A15 Gaming laptop and it's Pageup and Pagedown buttons are on the Numpad and they require the FN key held to work and i believe it's even worse because it seems like i need ...
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How do I fix Caps lock / Printscreen keys also lowering brightness

I've been having this issue lately where whenever I hit Caps Lock or Print Screen, it works normally but also acts like I hit the lower brightness key. This only happens with these keys specifically, ...
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Debian, keyboard still in QWERTY after keyboard-configuration

I installed debian on a Virtualbox machine running on my macbook pro. However, I tried to change from QWERTY to AZERTY using sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration. Here is the content of the `/...
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Repeating key event generated when window focus changes

Since I upgraded to Fedora 38, I have a strange bug with (I suppose) wayland. Basically if I change the currently focused windows through any mean (keyboard shortcut, mouse with focus on hover), an ...
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keyboard FN keys send ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v instead of unique events

I have a keyboard whose F2, F3, F4 keys send ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v events respectively instead of a unique keycode which could be remapped easily using xmodmap keycode mapping. My goal is to use the ...
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Gnome seems to be overwriting my keymap configuration on archlinux

I have finished several Arch Linux installations and I am in the process of creating my own custom installation script. It is almost finished but I have an issue with gnome overwriting (It's an ...
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Is it possible to have several actions for a single keycode in XKB keymap?

In XKB (X keyboard extension), it seems to me only one Action max is possible for any keysym: There is zero or one key action associated with each keysym bound to each key. https://www.x.org/releases/...
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Laptop keyboard and touchpad not working

My friend just installed Debian on his laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 14. He has Linux version 6.1.0-12-amd64. However, his integrated touchpad and keyboard don’t work. The issue happens on both ...
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Debian keeps closing my tabs with Ctrl + W key

Since I've installed Debian 12 with GNOME environment on my laptop. At random times, it starts to kind of glitch and Google Chrome or other apps using the Ctrl + W shortcut are closing. I am not ...
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Fail to connect Bluetooth LE keyboard with bluetoothctl

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Tablet gen 2. I recently bought a Lenovo Trackpoint Keyboard II which uses Bluetooth LE. Using a Stack Exchange post, I was able to get the ...
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How to lock modifiers other than Shift

I have a custom keyboard layout which heavily uses modifiers for navigation and commands. It works great when I have both of my hands on the keyboard, but now I'm trying to configure my keypad to be a ...
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Keyboard no exist `¬´

Some time ago, my Linux computer stopped recognizing the keyboard. No matter what type of keyboard (PCI, USB), it just doesn't work. But in those same ports other peripherals do work (Mouse, Pendrive, ...
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LG Gram: writing to /sys/class/leds/input3::capslock/brightness doesn't do anything

Usually on Linux you can turn your LEDs on and off by writing an ASCII number to /sys/class/leds/*/brightness, where * depends on the LED. The caps lock key on my LG Gram has an LED, but I can't turn ...
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