xkeysnail

Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment

Free • Open Source
Linux

What is xkeysnail?

A keyboard remapping tool for X environment written in Python. It's like xmodmap but allows more flexible remappings.

Pros:

Has high-level and flexible remapping mechanisms, such as per-application keybindings can be defined multiple stroke keybindings can be defined such as Ctrl+x Ctrl+c to Ctrl+q not only key remapping but arbitrary commands defined by Python can be bound to a key
Runs in low-level layer (evdev and uinput), making remapping work in almost all the places

Cons:

Runs in root-mode (requires sudo)

The key remapping mechanism of xkeysnail is based on pykeymacs (https://github.com/DreaminginCodeZH/pykeymacs).

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Developed bymooz
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
Written in
Python
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English

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uinput
xwindow
pykeymacs
Linux
emacs-keybindings

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