Kinto is described as 'A better Linux & Windows keyboard layout for professional mac users' and is a Key Mapping tool in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to Kinto for Mac, Linux, BSD, X11 and Windows. The best Kinto alternative is Karabiner Elements, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kinto are SharpKeys, Toshy, Hyperkey and xmodmap.
Karabiner, previously called KeyRemap4MacBook, is a very powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X. In addition to simple key remapping, it has special remapping modes like Emacs-mode, SandS-mode (Space and Shift).
Karabiner Elements is the most popular Mac alternative to Kinto.
Karabiner Elements is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Kinto.
SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key. Included in the application is a list of common keyboard keys and a Type Key feature to automatically recognize most keyboard keys. It was developed in C# using .NET v2.
SharpKeys is the most popular Windows alternative to Kinto.
Toshy is a config file for the keyszer Python-based keymapper for Linux (which was forked from xkeysnail). The Toshy config is not strictly a fork of Kinto, but was based in the beginning entirely on the config file for Kinto.sh by Ben Reaves (https://github.
Toshy is the most popular Linux alternative to Kinto.
Use an additional modifier key for all your keyboard shortcuts with this straightforward app. Utilize an unused key by converting the caps lock or any modifier key to the hyper key, which combines all four modifiers. The hyper key can be used in any app with keyboard shortcuts.
The xmodmap program is used to edit and display the keyboard modifier map and keymap table that are used by client applications to convert event keycodes into keysyms. It is a part of the X.Org project.
Remap Keyboard lets you modify your Mac keyboard layout by changing the behavior of each key to work like another. You can apply mapping to all your keyboards or just the selected keyboard (e.g. only the MacBook keyboard or only the USB keyboard).
Remap Keyboard is the most popular commercial alternative to Kinto.
A keyboard remapping tool for X environment written in Python. It's like xmodmap but allows more flexible remappings.
A smart, flexible keymapper (fork/reboot of xkeysnail) for X11 written in Python. It's similar to xmodmap but allows far more flexible remappings.
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