Questions tagged [xkb]
X KeyBoard extension, or XKB, defines the way keyboards codes are handled in X, and provides access to internal translation tables.
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using multimedia-like key in xkb layout
If I want to redefine say R key, I use:
key <AD04> { [ r, R, Page_Up, registered ]};
corresponding xev output for that key is:
KeyPress event, serial 35, synthetic ...
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Use xkbset on Ubuntu 22.04 (Wayland Display Server)
I use sticky keys due to accessibility issues. One problem with the sticky keys accessibility setting on Ubuntu is "latchlock" behavior. Where
a modifier pressed twice will be locked
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Disabling Caps Lock doesn't work: still results in 0x2 state (running in VMware)
I am running an Ubuntu 21.10 guest in VMware, with a Windows 11 host.
I would like to disable all Caps Lock functionality, and use the key as Meta_R.
I've tried disabling it with xmodmap -e "...
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X11 / xkb: Custom Keyboard Layout -- "Error loading new keyboard description"
My machine: Xubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, XFCE 4.14, X.org 1.20.13
I am attempting to create a custom keyboard layout for the Arabic-script (kona yéziq) version of the Uyghur language. I believe I have ...
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How to remap escape, tilde, and quotes on 21.10 with xkb options
I would like to swap the backtick/tilde key with escape and also single and double quotes by creating new options to be picked up.
I already have caps lock and left control swapped as well as parens ...
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Enabling “extra” keyboard layouts from base.extras.xml & evdev.extras.xml under XFCE
In addition to the keyboard layouts which by default can be selected in the xfce4-keyboard-settings app, there are many listed in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.extras.xml and /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/...
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xkb options overriding special keyboard layout
I have made a special Spanish keyboard layout that includes the German ß on AltGr-s, and the Scandinavian æ Æ (ae, AE), ø Ø (oe, OE), and å Å (aring, Aring), on AltGr-e, AltGr-E, AltGr-o, AltGr-O, ...
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xkbset setting does not persist
I use keys on my keyboard for mouse clicks. For this to work I need to invoke
xkbset m
This works for a few minutes, then for some reason this setting gets reverted! I have resorted to leaving a ...
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Custom xkb layout on Ubuntu 21.04 Wayland
I have googled various guides on creating a custom keyboard layout using xkb. I want the left alt key to send a control key event. After lots of trial and error I came up with this (based on Estonian ...
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I swapped Escape and Caps Lock with xkb symbols, but now the Caps Lock key activates both Escape and Caps Lock
I am working on my own custom keyboard layout and part of that is swapping the Caps Lock and escape keys. The layout appears to work quite well all other keys appear to be remapped correctly, except ...
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setxkbmap no longer works as expected
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, gnome 3.36.8.
Part of my problem may be this: Keyboard Map is Changed Randomly (the dconf fix didn't work). Basically, when a new device is connected, the keyboard map seems ...
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Strange login screen freeze after trying to make changes to xkb
I've been using my chromebook with Ubuntu 21.04 for a few days with no incident. Now, it freezes when I attempt to log in. The only probable cause I can identify is what I was doing immediately before,...
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The right key of my laptop keyboard has malfunctioned. I want to disable it. xmodmap is deprecated, help needed in writing a xkb script
I am using an Ubuntu 20.04.02 machine. I was using xmodmap to disable the right key, and make my pgdn key as my right key. Below is the code for that.
117 is the keycode for PgDn, and 114 is keycode ...
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custom keyboard
I have created a custom Dvorak keyboard layout that I have used successfully under Ubuntu 16.04. Now I am trying to get it to work with Ubuntu 20.04.
Here are my steps:
I copy my layout file to /usr/...
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How to permanently switch "backspace" and "Enter" keys?
i want to swap the functions of Enter key and backspace .
i know the key code of both of them
"Enter" = 117;
"Backspace" = 101;
possible ways is by using the dconf editor by ...
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xkbcomp at startup in kde
I'm using kubuntu 20.04 and want to run xkbcomp ~/.Xkeymap $DISPLAY at startup to load a custom keymap. To this end I created a script with the content
#!/bin/bash
touch ~/test
xkbcomp ~/.Xkeymap $...
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Remap "special" Keys on HP keyboard
I bought a new HP notebook (elitebook) with an extremely awful keyboard functionality. For example, I don't have an insert key, but I have a phone-dial and phone-hangup key (right upper corner):
The ...
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Problem on deactivating caps lock
I'm new here, so I'm sorry if I've done anything wrong.
So... I've noticed that my caps lock only deactivate when i release the key. I can activate it just by pressing the key, but to turn it off, I ...
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Alias for keycodes in XKB evdev file
I want to remap "i" to the home button without losing "i" on the alphabet section of the keyboard.
I tried
alias = ;
but it didn't seem to do anything.
I've tried Autokey but it ...
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Load hardware specific keyboard config automatically
I have a special keyboard, with which I want to write with a configuration that is not the same as when writing with another keyboard (e.g. the laptop's keyboard). I want to keep both configurations ...
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Adjusted /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ir file
I want to config my /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ir file to be like Windows keyboard layout. Is there a provided config for it?
This is an example for my request, but it's a 'like Mac keyboard layout' ...
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xkb remap does not work for some keys [duplicate]
I am trying to remap some keys with xkb. In the below extract, I've changed two lines to configure my keymap. The one for space workes just fine. But both of the Delete I mapped on BKSP does not work, ...
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Swapping CapsLock key for hyper
i tried doing this by running a .Xmodmap script at startup but it just doesn't work, I've seen a lot of threads with people (maybe) fixing it, but i just can't!
I've also seen some threads about using ...
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Puzzling phenomena in keymap with xkbcomp
To achieve a low-level swap of left ctrl key and capsLock key, I used xkbcomp as follows:
First get the present keyboard layout:
xkbcomp $DISPLAY output.xkb
Then I change the 2 lines in output.xkb ...
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How to make a custom xkb layout with combine unicode symbols?
I'm trying to do a custom layout for a language call Pilaga.
I need to make this symbol 'b̶' that I make from combining this unicode char U+0062 U+0336
Now I having trouble trying to add this symbol ...
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xkb and Ubuntu 20.10
I like to customize my keyboard layout and I usually use a modified /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us file to get what I want. Since Ubuntu 20.04 and now with 20.10 my modifications are not taken into ...
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key map: combined keys to combined keys
In short, I want to map Ctrl+H/L to Ctrl+Left/Right without autokey, and xbindkeys+xdotool/xvkbd does not work. Details are as follows:
I am now using autokey to achieve the mapping, it works very ...
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Gnome does not recognize shortcuts with Level_3 key symbols
I have modified my keyboard layout in the following way using xkb:
CapsLock key has been reassigned to act as Control_L.
replace key <CAPS> { [ Control_L ] };
modifier_map Control { <CAPS&...
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Mapping Super+Left to Home in xkb config file
I have following file in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/uscz and I want to remap Super+Left combination to Home button and Super+Right to End. Is it possible?
default partial alphanumeric_keys
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Assigning shortcuts to AltGr when it is set as ISO_Level3_Shift
I am using a custom keyboard layout. I duplicated the "intl" from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us within the same file, called it "myintl" and altered the 3rd and 4th level of some ...
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Keyboard shortcuts do not honor selected input source in some apps
I own a laptop with a French azerty keyboard, when I installed Ubuntu, I chose to use an azerty layout but otherwise setup the whole system in english.
I then tried to plug my external keyboard which ...
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XKB - Certain CTRL + SHIFT + Key combinations do not work when using CAPS LOCK as CTRL
Kubuntu 20.04
I created a new keyboard keymap using xkb and remapped the caps lock key as left control, however, a few keyboard combinations such as ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+s do not work (have no ...
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Remap a key in Ubuntu 20.04, Wayland
I think I\ve looked all over the whole internet for an answer now, but I can\t find it.
I have a keyboard where the tilde key should be mapped to the bar/pipe key. Before Wayland I used this config
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Cannot find a way to load a custom xkb keymap on login in Kubuntu 20.04
I have made a custom xkb keymap that I am happy with, and I can load it with no issues using the following script
xkbcomp -I$HOME/.xkb ~/.xkb/keymap/mykeys $DISPLAY
and it works the way I want when I ...
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adding/changing xkb Symbols with altGr
I am running Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and read through much theory around xkb and I managed for example to change altGr-, from · to (a bigger, bolder) •:
$> testing keys... öäü…·
$> cp de de_frank (...
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Is it possible to configure dead key in XKB keyboard?
Unlike Compose key, I want to set any character as a dead key. It generates a third character after pressing a specific key after the dead key.
This dead key feature is available in ibus-m17n, but I ...
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Modifying keyboard layout in ubuntu 20
My hp notebook has a german keyboard that seems to be a relabled version of a us keyboard. Because of this it lacks the <>| key that is usually located right of l-shift on german keyboards.
This ...
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Cannot boot Ubuntu after making changes to xkb files
So my keyboard's Ctrl button stopped working, I attempted to make edits to xkbd files as in this thread How to swap ctrl and alt keys in ubuntu 16.04?
Specifically, to the /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/...
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X11 MappingNotify does not fire as anticipated from X11 documentation
When developing an accessibility application, I encounter a behavior deferring from what should happen according to all Xlib documentation sets I could so far put my hands on:
The event MappingNotify ...
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Custom num lock keypad layout
I, like many people, keep the num lock key enabled all the time. However, I would like to create a custom XKB keyboard layout that maps the keypad with num lock off to what would normally be the ...
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xkbcommon: ERROR: xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device: illegal device ID: -1
When trying to start x-window-manager (which links to /usr/bin/mutter, version 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.2) in xstartup in a vnc4server session, I get this error:
xkbcommon: ERROR: ...
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Keyboard model for Bilingual Dell laptop
My keyboard model doesn't match the one used by the system and thus the key above the enter key doesn't work as it should. This happened after I had to "reset" my ~/.config folder to solve another ...
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How can I remap my keyboard to create a lefthand numpad?
Like many smaller machines, my laptop's keyboard is missing a dedicated numpad.
I can generally type without looking at my keyboard, but I am unable to blindly type numbers with the number row. That's ...
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making mousekeys settings permanent
I figured out how to configure mousekeys with xkb and xkbset use the command command xkbset ma 300 3 1000 1 6000. However, the settings don't persist when I reboot. How can I make these settings ...
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The keyboard layouts carpalx and carpalx-full are in the X Keyboard Configuration Database but not GNOME Settings
I want to use the keyboard layout carpalx-full.
It is defined in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us.*
However, when I go to Settings > Language and Region > Input Sources > Add an Input Source > ...
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How to use PrtSc key as modifier (AltGr) key?
I like to set the AltGr key to Ctrl so I can have the Ctrl key under my right thumb. Also, I set the key at the right of AltGr to AltGr, so I can still use it to insert tildes and other Spanish and ...
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Remap two keys for one application only
I am using NoMachine to connect remotely to a Mac. Unforunately NoMachine doesn't provide a way to map keys on it's own.
While I am using NoMachine I'd like to swap my Control and 'Meta' (Windows) ...
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How to disable multimedia keys entirely? 18.04 LTS
I have a fresh vanilla 18.04 LTS install, using gnome-shell 3.28.4. I'm using a wired Apple aluminum keyboard:
I would like to use the top-row F-keys as keyboard shortcuts in various end-user ...
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Make keyboard right alt ctrl work as mouse left right click buttons
I am using ubuntu 19.04. in windows i have used autohotkey to make keyboard right alt and ctrl behave as mouse left and right click.
But i am unable to do this in ubuntu.
I have tried editting /usr/...
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How is it possible to change keyboard layout when its default layout is not English?
I've mistakenly changed the default keyboard layout in /etc/default/keyboard to persian. Also input source switching shortcuts are disabled and there is no options in /etc/default/keyboard for ...
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