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Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment
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How to unbind Alt? #124

Closed Gieted closed 3 years ago

Gieted commented 3 years ago

I'm trying to make it so Alt presses are ignored, is it possible?

EskoJTH commented 3 years ago

In my experience some programs capture the alt key despite of what you have in xkeysnail. The solution that I have used is to individually disable alt on every program where it is a problem. I believe you can't do this in for example electron and as such I have just elected not to use any electron apps.

But I hope I'm wrong with this and there is a way to turn it off in electron and I hope this could have a better implementation to begin with to skip the alt problem. But that is all I know.

Gieted commented 3 years ago

I've found a nice solution.

Simply replace Left Control and Left Alt in Gnome Tweaks. Then nothing will happen upon pressing Alt, because Control usually does nothing on itself.