Trying to assign a lot of custom shortcuts to my keys. So, I want two key combinations which are unlikely to used by other websites/distros. I use MX Linux 21 xfce btw.
Also, is there a way to know what your systems current shortcuts are? I am pretty sure not many websites use Windows button + _____ shortcuts, so if I know what shortcuts to avoid, I can create many shortcuts as a combination of Windows Button
Hyper + [whatever]If you are ready to use a bit of remapping (try keyd, it’s awesome), then you can remap a key you rarely use to Hyper to get that as a direct modifier.
You can also assign some key to activate a layer when held, but still return it’s regular output when tapped. So e.g. holding
Agives you a new layer, press-and-release just printsA.In the new layer, you can then set, say,
f1 = f13... f12 = f24and, say,esc = katakanaetc., thereby getting access to a lot of keys not present on standard western keyboards, therefore not used as standard shortcuts. These you can then use directly, or in combination with standard modifiers likeCtrl,Shift…There’s also kmonad, which is cross-platform. I think there’s one more floating around out there.
It got so that I had to use one of these, because I used an ErgoDox at my desktop. Once the muscle memory takes hold, it’s hard to do without, so I run kmonad on my laptop, even though I don’t really need it.
Edit: map2 is the other one I was thinking of.
Wow this looks awesome.
Do you by chance have any idea on how the special media keys are called on keyboards that have them? You know the standalone ones above the F keys (Looking to remap them)
keydit has alist-keyssub-command that lets you list all valid key names and also amonitorto print the names of keys as you press them.Thank you!!