Remapping special keys with Wayland

perolo · 2025-12-05 21:00:54

Hello everyone!

I have a laptop which has an special key that was originally intended to MSFT's Copilot, so I've been on a quest to remap this key to something useful, and for me that will be:
Wev standard: Super_L (65515)
Evtest: code 125 (KEY_LEFTMETA)

I have reviewed past post like (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305867) but I need more details since I'm not that experienced on Arch.

What I've seen on my test both with web and evtest, when pressing this copilot key it seems like I was pressing 3 keys. From the past post I've learned how to map the physical key to it's logical value, however I still do not understand how to actually make it recon like if I only have pushed a single key.

¿Is this possible?¿How?

I'm interested on having different profiles of key mapping since I've seen that's an option so that on the future I can try remapping more keys and being able to roll back whenever I want.

Thanks in advance,

seth · 2025-12-05 22:17:33

however I still do not understand how to actually make it recon like if I only have pushed a single key.

You won't - the keyboard presses a combination, this is just shortwired.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_remap_utilities
Your/their goal is to make the last part (XF86Assistant, 6e in the other thread) something accessible (They chose "Q")

Evremap should™ be able to compress shortcuts into single keys, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_remap_utilities
But NOTICE this will apply NO MATTER HOW THAT SHORTCUTS WAS PRESSED (via the single key or and actual hand-cramp) and I'm not sure that it will work w/ modifiers either.
So if you're going for that you'd actually be better off to leave the XF86Assistant alone (because you'll likely not run into that shortcut by other means)

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Remapping special keys with Wayland

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Re: Remapping special keys with Wayland

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