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Rigelpjokken

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Change keybinds for brackets and curly-braces

I recently installed arch om my 2017 macbook 12" and I am having trouble binding brackets and braces to my option-key+7,8,9,0
I have tried adding this to my /etc/keyd/default.conf:

[main]
leftalt+7 = bracketleft
leftalt+0 = bracketright
leftalt+8 = braceleft
leftalt+9 = braceright

halimbo

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From: Krefeld, Germany

Registered: 2013-10-23

Posts: 74

Re: Change keybinds for brackets and curly-braces

bracketright and bracketleft are not valid key descriptions for keyd.

when you run keyd list-keys it prints out a list of all available keys (how they are named internally)

...
[                                                                                   
leftbrace                                                                                                           
{                                                                                   
]                                                                                   
rightbrace                                                                                                             
}       
...

im not sure what rightbrace and leftbrace are but it seems you can just use the literal symbol in the config for your edgy and curly brackets