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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to have a Linux keyboard (with Tux instead of the Windows logo on super) with dedicated copy and paste keys. As far as I recall I never used them.

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[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey, this is one of the reasons I bought this keyboard!

For a couple extra bucks you can get them to make each individual key a separate key code by asking them to convert it to Single Usage Code Firmware, which is so nifty to me!

[–] fxdave@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you can remap keys with any keyboards

[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

While correct, for the keyboard I linked, when you press F13 through F24 it sends Shift+F1 through Shift+F12. Which is not impossible to remap, but what if you need to press Shift+F1?

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I have a typematrix keyboard.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

there's a growing adoption of keyboards with custom firmware– programmable keyboards

  1. There's an error
  2. You have computers? We have computers to send keystrokes to our computers!

Edit: i mean, there's software to remap your keyboard.

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't want copy paste buttons support, I want the caps lock delay to be fixed. Yes, I use the caps lock not shift, as my brain can't get used to using shift for caps. I'm so tired of typing like THis all the time. 😂 (I'm using a hack currently that helps, but it would be nice if it gets fixed on Linux in general).

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I found this handy snippet to enable these keys in GTK 2 and 3 (not sure of the equivalent for GTK 4 but I guess that's the one which has been updated anyway): https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1438-dreymars-big-bag-of-keyboard-tricks-linuxxkb-files-included/#p10012

Unfortunately I've found this whilst I'm not at the right computer so I haven't been able to test them.

Edit: I tested this and it doesn't appear to have helped.

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