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marcelo0080

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Registered: 2021-02-28

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Is there any quick fix for a key that doesnt work on a latop

Hi!, my 'a' key stopped working on my laptop after an accident with water, is there any way to remap it? to  'super + <' or something like that (if you have a better idea i would love to hear it). i've been copying and psting is which is  a bit tedious

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Is there any quick fix for a key that doesnt work on a latop

If you wAnt to use A modfier like ctrl or Alt, yo'll hAve to creAte A shortcut to eg. xdotool, but you could Also mAp it to the 3rd level iso (AltGr)

xmodmap -e "keysym 0x73 = s S s S a A"

will bind a/A to AltGr+s and AltGr+shift+s

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