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created: 2017-01-20 11:14:41 +0100
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redirect_to: https://blog.mbirth.de/archives/2017/01/20/system-wide-key-remapping-in-ubuntu.html
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tags:
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- know-how
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- software
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- linux
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- keyboard
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- remapping
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- keycode
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title: System wide key remapping in Ubuntu
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updated: 2017-01-20 11:14:41 +0100
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---
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2022-01-23 17:14:59 +00:00
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2017-04-10 20:49:54 +01:00
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On my [hp Spectre x360]({% post_url 2016-07-26-hp-spectre-x360 %}), the <kbd>Ins</kbd> key is only
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reachable via the <kbd>Fn</kbd> key as in <kbd>Fn</kbd>+<kbd>PrtScr</kbd>.
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So I wanted to swap both keys. System-wide - so not only in X (using `xev`).
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I finally found [this](http://superuser.com/questions/290115/how-to-change-console-keymap-in-linux)
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which suggested the following procedure:
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1. Dump the current keyboard layout:
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sudo dumpkeys > backup.kmap
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1. Check the keycodes you want to change (<kbd>Ins</kbd> = 110, <kbd>PrtScr</kbd> = 99):
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sudo showkey
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(When you're done, wait 10 seconds for it to exit automatically.)
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1. Copy the dumped keyboard layout:
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cp backup.kmap ins-prt-swap.kmap
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1. Edit it to swap all occurrences of `99` to `110` and vice versa, e.g. change:
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keycode 99 = ...
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...
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keycode 110 = Insert.....
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to
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keycode 110 = ...
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...
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keycode 99 = Insert.....
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1. The suggested `sudo setcon --save` didn't work for me, but Ubuntu loads the active keymap from
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the file `/etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz`. So I gzipped my `ins-prt-swap.kmap` and copied the
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resulting `ins-prt-swap.kmap.gz` to `/etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz`.
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