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jesnow
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 4:20 pm    Post subject: No keyboard Custom Shortcuts in plasma 6 Reply with quote

I recently got a compact keyboard which is great but missing <home> and <end> which I use a lot. Simple, I'll "just" create a custom shortcut. Not so fast, says KDE. We now no longer have custom shortcuts, that's so KDE 5 and somehow no good for wayland, which everyone uses now anyway because its better for gaming.

OK, is there another way of doing this so that I can map, let's say <win>+<left arrow> to <home>? It looks like it can be done by editing xorg.conf. I thought I was never going to have to do that again.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After looking around a bit, I can only suggest keyd:

"Linux lacks a good key remapping solution. In order to achieve satisfactory results a medley of tools need to be employed (e.g xcape, xmodmap) with the end result often being tethered to a specified environment (X11). keyd attempts to solve this problem by providing a flexible system wide daemon which remaps keys using kernel level input primitives (evdev, uinput)."

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

It can be found in a few overlays:
http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-misc/keyd
You could alternatively copy that ebuild and the files directory to maintain your own ebuild in a personal repo.
The ebuild appears to be able to install an openrc service, if that applies to you.
The config file is:
/etc/keyd/default.conf
and seems pretty straight forward. The ebuild appears to install a default.conf config file that is found in the overlay files directory.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm using Plasma 6.2.2. There you can find the shortcuts: Systemsettings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts.

The shortcuts for "Beginning of Line" and "End of Line" can be set under Navigation.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just wanted to point out the difference between those two approaches, in case it is not obvious. Keyboard shortcuts are available once logged into the Plasma session. Since Keyd uses kernel level input, those shortcuts would be available once the keyd service is loaded. If the home and end keys would never be needed in the shell or outside of a Plasma session, then Plasma shortcuts would be the easiest solution. Otherwise, if you need early loading or always available full keyboard remapping, then consider something like keyd.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very interesting...
Emerged here as a reminder.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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