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rvaiya / keyd

A key remapping daemon for linux.
MIT License
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rightcontrol emits leftcontrol by default. #773

Open bpesner opened 2 months ago

bpesner commented 2 months ago

Issue #114 explained that keyd treats both control keys as leftcontrol. No one had a use case for treating them differently. Here's one: VirtualBox uses the right control key, and NOT the left control key, as the "host key', which is used to send special commands to a Virtual Box virtual machine. I have to stop keyd whenever I want to use this function, and then restart it when I'm done. Not convenient.

nsbgn commented 2 months ago

For the VirtualBox case, you can remap rightcontrol = rightcontrol. Nevertheless, there have been many issues about this before (see also https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/issues/713#issuecomment-2044331523) and I do think that it would be a good idea to address it despite the existing workarounds.