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How to display the current keyboard layout?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

Is there a utility that allows to graphically display the current keyboard layout?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags keyboard, keyboard-layout, xkb Leave a comment

monitoring events (keyboard, mouse) in X

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

Is it possible to display all events that are generated in Xorg? Such as keyboard pressed, mouse events…?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags events, keyboard, mouse, xorg Leave a comment

What does the ^ character mean in sequences like ^X^I?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I was reading this message from the zsh mailing list about key bindings and I’d like to know which key I need to press:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags escape-characters, keyboard, terminal Leave a comment

Remapping Caps Lock with xmodmap doesn’t work

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

When I program I like to swap these keys:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags keyboard, xmodmap Leave a comment

Enable num-lock as default in Linux

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

There has been a similar question – but IMHO there has to be a simpler solution. If num-lock is on in the BIOS – why is it turned off during linux boot and/or KDE/Gnome/whatever startup?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags boot, keyboard, linux Leave a comment

UTF8 math symbols & keyboard layout / input

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

I’d like to use UTF8 math symbols, when typing one list, another list.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags kde, keyboard, keyboard-layout, unicode, xorg Leave a comment

Making udev rule for bluetooth keyboard

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m using a logitech k810 bluetooth keyboard with my laptop running Debian Wheezy. (I got the keyboard working by following this guide.)

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bluetooth, keyboard, udev Leave a comment

xkb: make ctrl+backspace behave as delete

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

How can I map Ctrl+Backspace to behave as Delete key with xkb? I can remap a single key on /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc but can’t figure out how to do the combination. My OS is Ubuntu 15.04

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags keyboard, keyboard-layout, keyboard-shortcuts, xkb Leave a comment

How to disable keyboard?

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

Without unplugging my keyboard I’d like to disable it from the terminal; I was hoping that this could be done using rmmod but based on my currently loaded modules it doesn’t look like it is possible.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags kernel-modules, keyboard, linux Leave a comment

Map “windows” key on keyboard to “ctrl”

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

I am on Ubuntu and using a Microsoft keyboard. I want to map my Win key to a Ctrl key. How can I do that?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags keyboard, xorg Leave a comment
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    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

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