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rusty-keys
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[](https://ci.moparisthe.best/job/moparisthebest/job/rusty-keys/job/master/)
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low level keyboard mapper for linux and windows, with advanced caps lock and shift swapping behavior
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This is the only keymapper I am aware of capable of implementing this layout, which I call Unix Programmer's Dvorak, which has been my daily driver since 2014:
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The Problem
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If you ever have mapped keys on linux, you know that there is the console keymap (loadkeys) and the X keymap (setxkbmap),
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also things like SDL and Virtualbox grab the input directly and respect no maps. Lastly I want to revert to QWERTY when
holding ctrl so ctrl+c works just like normal, without remapping all programs to ctrl+j. Linux keymaps cannot do this either.
The Solution
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1. Grab a keyboard device directly so only we can read events from it.
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2. Create a new keyboard input device with uinput, this looks identical to any other keyboard device to anything running on the box.
3. Read input_events from the real device, map them, send them to our created device.
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This solution is what rusty-keys implements, it works in ttys, in X, in Wayland, in virtualbox even running windows or whatever,
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on SDL games, it will work literally everywhere, because rusty-keys just creates a regular keyboard.
How to run
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When ran, it will read a keymap.toml configuration file, refer to example and tweak to suit.
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```
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Usage: rusty-keys [options] [device_files...]
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Options:
-h, --help prints this help message
-v, --version prints the version
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-c, --config FILE specify the keymap config file to use (default:
/etc/rusty-keys/keymap.toml)
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```
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when ran without specifying input devices, it maps all currently connected keyboards, and watches /dev/input/ with
inotify and starts mapping any new keyboards that are plugged in forever, until you kill it:
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`rusty-keys`
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or you can specify one or multiple input devices, and it will run until all are disconnected, then stop:
`rusty-keys /dev/input/event0` or `rusty-keys /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event2`
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An example systemd service is in systemd/rusty-keys.service, enable it to have mapped keyboards all the time.
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How to install
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* `cargo install rusty-keys`
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* Arch Linux [rusty-keys ](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusty-keys/ ) [rusty-keys-git ](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusty-keys-git/ )
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* Download a static binary for your system from the [releases ](https://code.moparisthebest.com/moparisthebest/rusty-keys/releases ) section. [github mirror ](https://github.com/moparisthebest/rusty-keys/releases )
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License
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AGPLv3 for now, message me if you have a problem with this
Notes
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Technically this is a re-implementation of a [previous ](https://code.moparisthebest.com/moparisthebest/uinput-mapper/src/master/uinputmapper/keymapper.py ) [python ](https://code.moparisthebest.com/moparisthebest/uinput-mapper/src/master/keymaps/dvorak.py ) [program ](https://code.moparisthebest.com/moparisthebest/uinput-mapper/src/master/input-read#L151 )
I had been using for 3 years previously.
