Questions tagged [xmodmap]
xmodmap is a tool for manipulating keymaps and pointer button mappings in the Xorg environment.
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How to make changes made with xmodmap permanent
On my laptop, I have to enter angled brackets with
Fn+l for <
Fn+Shift+l for > and
Fn+AltGr+l for |
which is extremely awkward, so I'd like to change that to
AltGr+ö for <
AltGr+ä for >
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Help with xmodmap example from archwiki
This article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/xmodmap#Reassigning_modifiers_to_keys_on_your_keyboard
Has an example:
clear lock
clear control
add control = Caps_Lock Control_L Control_R
keycode 66 = ...
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"xmodmaped" key are not recognized by gsettings key bindings
I'm on Zorin OS 16.1 based on Ubuntu 20.04.
Current setup:
I disabled caps lock key when pressed alone then map caps lock + hjkl to corresponding arrow key via xmodmap and this works perfectly, ...
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How to set Caps Lock as Hyper (and change modifiers) using xkb?
This is currently my .xsessionrc file:
xmodmap -e "remove Mod4 = Hyper_L" -e "add Mod3 = Hyper_L" -e "lock = Hyper_L" -e "keysym Caps_Lock = Hyper_L" &
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Change Caps Lock to Hyper
There are quite a lot of posts on how to change Caps Lock to Hyper, but for me, none of them explains how to turn off the locking;)
I've got this for xmodmap:
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keycode 77 = ...
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problem with xmodmap NoSymbol
so my keyboard got water-damaged and subtract key(the one in the num pad area) is randomly repeating itself
so I wanted to disable the key with
xmodmap -e 'keycode 82 = NoSymbol'
and when i run ...
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Remaping `alt(R)+hjkl` to `left down up right`using xmodmap behaves wierd
To remap alt(R)+hjkl to left dowm up rightI put these lines in my .bashrc file.
xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Mode_switch"
xmodmap -e "keycode 43 = h H Left NoSymbol NoSymbol NoSymbol"
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How to swap / remap the Escape key with backtick (`) and Caps-lock with Escape Key
So I just bought a 60% keyboard, and I didn't realize that the backtick doesn't have it's own dedicated key. This is problematic as I write a lot of Markdown and JavaScript.
It seems like swapping the ...
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How to remap the AltGr key on wayland?
I'm trying to have the "regular Alt" instead of the AltGr key, this is because it would be more easily to me work with emacs with that setting. I tried to change the keysym with xmodmap but ...
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Xmodmap: remap the "alt gr" + "y" key?
I want to remap my "Alt Gr" + "y" key (e.g. with with "$" key). I use some ThinkPad laptop and within Ubuntu 21.10. Based on some tutorials on internet xmodmap would be ...
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Alt+Shift key release event differs if the Alt key is Alt_R rather than Alt_L
On my linux (I am using CentOS-7 but also had the same behavior on RedHatRel6) workstation, I would modify the key release behavior of my Alt keys so the Alt+Shift sequence event does not emit a Meta ...
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Openbox does not recognize key remaps
The remaps don't work in Openbox menu nor Openbox window decorations. Remap example:
xmodmap -e "keycode 31 = i I i I Up Up rightarrow"
xmodmap -e "keycode 44 = j J j J Left Left ...
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In Linux Mint 20.2 how to execute xmodmap at startup
I use Linux Mint 20.2 (with Mate desktop environment).
I need to make permanent some modifications of the keyboard mapping, as explained in the chosen answer to this question.
In other words, I need ...
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How do I remap Caps Lock to Tab?
I've seen this trick to rebind keys using dconf, but it only seems to work for some target keys:
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/xkb-options "['caps:ctrl_modifier']"
This works ...
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Set r_ctrl to super using setxkbmap
Need to make my right ctrl act as a windows/super key. This needs to be a one-way change, I do not want to also swap my left windows key to control, I want to have two super keys, one on each side.
I'...
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Xev returns 'NoSymbol' after xmodmap remapping
The keyboard I am currently using happens to have the 94 and 49 keys swapped with respect to their expected behavior, so I am trying to swap them back at the OS level via xmodmap and xev.
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Can I trigger xmodmap on USB keyboard connection, as a user? [duplicate]
I remap my Right Alt to Compose with xmodmap in my .profile. But when I disconnect my USB keyboard and reconnect it I have to rerun xmodmap for it to take effect again.
Is there a way, I suspect as a ...
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How to get a keycode from my mouse's side button?
In my .bashrc, I would like to add this line :
xmodmap -e "keycode 135 = Return"
where the keycode number is the one from my mouse's side button.
To find a keycode from the keyboard, I use ...
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Map Escape to caps lock in vim not working in Fedora 34
I am new to Fedora and I have installed Fedora-34 couple of days ago. Well, when I used ubuntu, I mapped my Esc to CapsLk in vim using following lines in ~/.vimrc file
au VimEnter * silent! !xmodmap -...
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Keyboard layout (xmodmap) on plugin depends on Desktop used? (e.g. KDE)
I'm using a wireless keyboard with modified layout as per ~/.Xmodmap. Using exactly this file name ensures that after disconnecting and reconnecting the keyboard, the mapping is okay. But not on a ...
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Swap super and ctrl keys in xmodmap
I'm trying to swap my ctrl and super keys.
I currently have successfully mapped the super keys to ctrl, now I need to map the ctrl keys to super, but I can't find a way to do so.
Current code:
! Map ...
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How to swap Left Alt with Right Alt
How to swap the keys and make Left Alt act like AltGr as well? I tried xmodmap with the following:
clear mod1
clear mod5
keycode 108 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 64 = Alt_R Meta_R
add mod1 = ...
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Reassigning Right_Control from control modifier key to mod3 without using xmodmap
I am doing a task that is taking me longer than expected as xmodmap cannot be combined with other commands such as setxkbmap and so on.
My goal is to change Right_Control key from been assigned on ...
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Super Keys cannot be remapped using xmodmap
I'm developing an application with a kiosk to it. It's an examination delivery platform, and I'm developing the Linux version through electron.js. I'm looking to kiosk the application by forcing a ...
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What is a user-specific way to remap some keys, that is easy to backup
I wonder how I can remap some keys (especially modifier keys) in a way that will hopefully continue to work for the forseeable future, will probably work on different machines and preferrably use ...
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Alt-Gr and keyboard level 3
PROBLEM:
Alt-Gr is not functional under X11. It seems that keyboard level 3 (for 'at', 'euro', 'curly brackets', etc.) is not set up upon pressing Alt-Gr. In the text console (reached by Right-Shift ...
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Help with remapping control to escape using xmodmap?
So I'm currently using this to achieve
CapsLock + Anykey = Control + Anykey
Shift + CapsLock = CapsLock
clear lock
clear control
add control = Caps_Lock Control_L Control_R
keycode 66 = Control_L ...
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Run shell command exectly one time at login
I am on Ubuntu 18.04 and trying swap Ctrl and CapsLock using xmodmap. But failed to find a way of doing that automatically: .[X|x]modmap[rc] and .config/autostart didn't work. What other ways are ...
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How to activate a deactivated num_lock?
I use the following code to deactivate the num lock key.
xmodmap -e "keycode 77 = """
How can I activate the num lock key again? I think I have to use something like:
xmodmap -e &...
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How can I fully cuztomize my keyboard modifiers in xkb?
I am using a ThinkPad laptop with Arch Linux, and I am looking into the possibilities of remapping my keyboard layout + modifiers.
What I want to do is similar to what you can do with the QMK firmware ...
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xmodmap resets when keyboard mode changes
I have a Keychron K2 mechanical keyboard and the keys on the righthand side of the keyboard look like this:
I would like to swap them to a more standard layout, so that, from top to bottom, I would ...
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Ubuntu, disable "num lock" on startup using crontab
When I type this in a terminal I can disable the "num lock"
xmodmap -e "keycode 77 = """
Now I want to disable it on startup. I type,
sudo crontab -e
It opens a nano ...
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How to remap Super key properly
I don't know why, but I've needed to remap my super key. It got erased somehow.
I logged the keypress as 248 using xev, then used xmodmap -e "keycode 248 = Super_L" just to make sure the ...
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Swap semicolon/colon to P unexpected cause semicolon/colon affected by Cpas Lock
I use xmodmap -e "keycode 47 = p P p P" -e "keycode 33 = semicolon colon semicolon colon" to swap P and semicolon/colon
My expected behavior:
semicolon/colon don't affected by ...
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Remapped multimedia keys using xmodmap not triggering event in Linux Mint 20
My aim is to remap XF86AudioLowerVolume/XF86AudioRaiseVolume to the mode_switch minus/equal keys using xmodmap.
If the XF86AudioLowerVolume/XF86AudioRaiseVolume are mapped to the first position, the ...
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Openbox mousebinds not recognizing remaps of Pointer_Button1 & Pointer_Button3
In openbox, when I press the left or right buttons from the mouse over the titlebar of a window, the later focuses, raises and unshades. The behavior is given by the following mousebinds from openbox ...
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xev doesn't identify some keys, and some have incorrect mappings?
My keyboard modifier map as returned by xmodmap is:
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), ...
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Remap Shift_R+Enter to Enter, but leave Shift_L+Enter alone
Sometimes I'll clumsily hit both the Enter key and the right Shift key, resulting in a Shift+Enter by accident. If I want to type Shift+Enter I'll use the left Shift key. So I'd like to remap ...
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How can one create a custom keyboard layout for Linux?
Ideally, I'm looking for a GUI tool, maybe a web application, but good documentation on creating a text definition for a keyboard layout would be great too. What is the normal procedure here?
In this ...
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FN+ESC (Reverse Fn) in Asus ux362fa in Debian
I am trying to set the fn+esc to toggle fn lock on my Asus ux362fa running with Debian 10. Using xev, I can confirm that the keycode when I press the fn+esc is keycode 248. But looking in xmodmap -pk ...
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xmodmap in xsession running without effect
Following this other question I put this in my .xsession file
date -I > /tmp/xsession_started
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" &> /tmp/mouser.log
I can see the xsession_started file ...
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`setxkbmap` doesn't alter modifier map
I'm able to successfully update my keymap using this:
/usr/bin/setxkbmap -option "ctrl:swapcaps"
This doesn't seem to change my modifier map.
[OP@localhost ~]$ xmodmap
xmodmap: up to 4 ...
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Xmodmap not remapping mouse buttons
My .Xmodmap file contains this line: keycode 115 = Pointer_Button1. I used Xev to confirm that 115 is the end key on my keyboard. When I press the end key on my keyboard, everything works as usual (...
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xmodmap not working with AltGr and arrow keys
I have an us altgr-intl layout.
with this command :
>_xmodmap -e "keycode 113 = Left NoSymbol U21BC NoSymbol U21BC U21BC U21BC"
(Or just 6 combinations, I tried many things ...)
AltGr+← still ...
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Xmodmap: Remapped Home key works, but not Shift+Home
I'm using xmodmap (in Linux Mint 19.3) to remap the physical PrintScr & Insert keys to Home & End (because the keyboard's actual Home & End are secondary functions under the arrow keys, ...
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How to set Alt_L to Ctrl_L in xmodmap?
I can swap Alt_L and Ctrl_L with the following config
remove control = Control_L
remove mod1 = Alt_L
keycode 37 = Alt_L Meta_L Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 64 = Control_L NoSymbol Control_L
add control = ...
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How to keep xmodmap after suspend
I have an xmodmap file ~/.Xmodmap and it works perfectly. I put it in the startup applications app in ubuntu 19.10 like this xmodmap /home/yasser/.Xmodmap and it works when first booting up. However, ...
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Simultaneous keystrokes - emulating mouse movements with keyboard
I'm trying to emulate mouse movements and actions with keyboard, and I succeeded in remapping everything (e.g.: hjkl to movements), with xkb (in particular using xkbset -m) and xmodmap.
The problem ...
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X11: swap keyboard key with mouse button
I want my Menu key on the keyboard (Keycode 135) to do the same as my right mouse button.
https://superuser.com/questions/336674/emulating-mouse-click-with-a-keyboard does that but it sacrifices the ...
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How to make a board key act like the right mouse key?
As most keyboard these days come with no Menu-key it would be nice to set a key to the operation of the right mouse button. So far I still have to select text.
How could I get the board key act like ...
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