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Vim Wayland users: how do you bind CAPSLOCK to Escape? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everything I read says it's a feature enabled in what ever compositor you choose, if your compositor supports it. Why isn't there a general purpose keybinding program like setxkbmap? Does it just not exist yet or must it be built into the compositor?

I've read [this stackexchange thread] on something related but it all seems to be using XKB which should imply I'm using XWayland?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just tried keyd a day or two ago and I'm super taken with it.

I just wanted to make Meta+Arrows generate PgUp/PgDn/Home/End because I've really grown to like laptops that do that with Fn (And I was playing with a hacked Chromebook whose keyboard does those soft with Ctrl+Shift+Arrow in software on ChromeOS so you've got to do something).

I'm quite impressed. The configuration format is sane, the daemon's runtime footprint is tiny, and it works across VTs, X, and Wayland because it's a virtual keyboard emitting events. The historical options have like...0-1 of those properties. Also the virtual keyboard takes bus ID 0fac:0ade, and who doesn't like a god hex pun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep keyd is fantastic. I also have a chromebook laptop which I installed NixOS on, and the keyboard is an absolute disaster. Keyd has been a god send.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is NixOS on a Chromebook? The Chromebook I've been hacking on exists as a beater for trying environments without disrupting the (principally Arch+KDE on X) boxes I do my real work on, and I was thinking about trying Nix on it, but it seemed like the combination of 16GB eMMC and Nix's propensity for large disc usage would make that difficult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

16GB eMMC and Nix

Yeah, that ain't gonna work.

On my chromebook, it runs great. But I have a 128gb ssd. The only things that don't work are hdmi audio and automatically switching from speakers to the audio jack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As expected from the docs, that's why I was surprised to see you mention Nix on a Chromebook, it seemed like order of magnitude wrong. 128GB is an unusual amount of local storage for a Chromebook.

I have a little Arch/Hyprland install that fits a comfortable environment in like 8 of the 16GB in my Dell 3189 right now - It was kind of a fun project fitting it and chasing down all the little annoyances, I think it all works now other than the lack of pluming to make use of the fold sensors, and an occasional ASoC bug for which patches have landed upstream in Linux or Pipewire since the last releases.