Strange emoji key behaviour

thesupertechie · Yesterday 04:05:35

I am the owner of an HP laptop whose emoji key exhibits some strange behaviour. Unlike the other action keys on my keyboard which provide consistent key codes (e.g. "XF86Launch2" for the HP Command Centre key), this key doesn't. In fact, every time the key is pressed, it releases a different combination of keys. The key combination always has Ctrl and Caps Lock in it, but sometimes Alt and/or Shift as well.

Is there any reliable way to remap the key to something else?

Last edited by thesupertechie (Yesterday 04:09:31)

seth · Yesterday 08:17:24

emoji key … every time the key is pressed, it releases a different combination of keys

Ok, so apparently https://office-watch.com/2019/all-about … emoji-key/ is a thing … I guess that means the end is nigh.

Where and how do you measure the input?
What does the key produce in "sudo evtest"?

thesupertechie · Today 01:55:26

It is not in the event code list, and pressing the key provides nothing.
Testing with showkey results in this, confirming that it's sending multiple keycodes:
keycode 56 press
keycode 57 press
keycode 57 release
keycode 56 release
keycode 29 release
keycode 125 release

seth · Today 07:49:59

You're looking at the wrong event device - there'd be no showkey output if evtest doesn't produce an event and the output of "showkey" in a GUI is useless.
The key probably tries to generate win+. or win+; and there're two spurious releases that might or not be generated by the key.
Start an X11 session, run "xev -event keyboard", press and release the key and post the output.
wev *might* do iff it works on your particular wayland compositor, don't use xev on wayland (it's gonna be unreliable)

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Strange emoji key behaviour

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