On January 4, 2024, Microsoft kicked off the “year of AI-powered Windows PCs” by adding a Copilot key to keyboards, and it actually went ahead with the plan. Nearly two years later, all newer PCs, including mini PCs, come with a Copilot key, but I am afraid Microsoft has created a new problem for itself, […]
  • paper_moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I have to do this on new systems now just to get a Ctrl key back…

    Here are the steps I did to remap “copilot key” to right control in Ubuntu 22.04.

    1. Install keyd from ppa
      1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:keyd-team/ppa
      2. sudo apt update
      3. sudo apt install keyd
    2. Create default config file, /etc/keyd/default.conf, with contents

    [ids]

    [main]

    leftshift+leftmeta+f23 = rightcontrol

    1. Reload config: sudo keyd reload or sudo systemctl restart keyd
      • I had to reboot in this step because a lock file was blocking keyd to reload.

    (For keyd installed via PPA, the binary may be called keyd.rvaiya, but the systemd unit is always keyd.)