#keyd

I just bought a new #mechanical #keyboard. But this one is weird as the escape key doubles as the backquote key. Because of this, the only way to access the backquote key is to press fn+escape, then escape again, then fn+escape to go back to 'escape' mode for the key. Thankfully, it also has keys I never use, like INSERT! Using #keyd, I could remap INSERT to the backquote key with the following config (works in #wayland):

```
cat /etc/keyd/default.conf
[ids]

*

[main]
insert = grave
```

full #dvorak #keyd config for #remarkable2 type folio https://gist.github.com/plredmond/6da75360e660a7e240a9013f56af0603

I kind of wanted to try keyd at some point, but now that I use Emacs I'm unsure I'll actually need it

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

#lang_en #keyd #emacs

Someone™ pointed out to me that #kmonad [1] is a lot more lispy than #keyd, overlays devices by paths and overall has larger community. While keyd is a way to have universal system-wide config with different layouts this is a solution more suited to building #emacs macro organs.

[1]: https://github.com/david-janssen/kmonad

Showcasing #keyd [1], very easy daemon to remap things on different keyboards.

[1]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

Got angry at #xmodmap which broke during a recent #opensuse upgrade. Replaced it with #keyd, which has been much more stable.

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

Considered #kmonad, which has an attractive s-exp based config language, but the toolchain wouldn't compile properly.

@nicyoung you need #keyd or #kmonad . Keyd has an example in their repo for exactly this.

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad