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# Folder Structure of Key Mapper
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Stuff has to be placed in /usr/share/X11/xkb to my knowledge. In order to
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be able to make backups of the configs, which would be expected in the
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users home directory, this is symlinked to home.
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Every user gets a path within that /usr directory which is very
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unconventional, but it works. This way the presets of multiple users
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don't clash.
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This is how a single preset is stored. The path in /usr is a symlink, the
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files are actually in home.
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- /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/key-mapper/<user>/<device>/<preset>
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- /home/<user>/.config/key-mapper/<device>/<preset>
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This is where key-mapper stores the defaults. They are generated from the
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parsed output of `xmodmap` and used to keep the unmapped keys at their system
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defaults.
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- /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/key-mapper/<user>/default
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- /home/<user>/.config/key-mapper/default
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Because the concept of "reasonable symbolic names" [3] doesn't apply
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when mouse buttons are all over the place, an identity mapping
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to make generating "symbols" files easier/possible exists.
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Keycode 10 -> "<10>". This has the added benefit that keycodes reported
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by xev can be identified in the symbols file.
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- /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/key-mapper
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[3] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/input/XKB-Enhancing.html
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