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Folder Structure of Key Mapper

Stuff has to be placed in /usr/share/X11/xkb to my knowledge.

Every user gets a path within that /usr/... directory which is very unconventional, but it works. This way the presets of multiple users don't clash.

Presets

  • /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/key-mapper/<user>/<device>/<preset>

This is how a single preset is stored.

Defaults

  • /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/key-mapper/<user>/default

This is where key-mapper stores the defaults. They are generated from the parsed output of xmodmap and used to keep the unmapped keys at their system defaults.

Keycodes

  • /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/key-mapper

Because the concept of "reasonable symbolic names" (www.x.org) doesn't apply when mouse buttons are all over the place, an identity mapping to make generating "symbols" files easier/possible exists. A keycode of 10 will be known as "<10>" in symbols configs. This has the added benefit that keycodes reported by xev can be identified in the symbols file.