xmodmap, xkbcomp & Co

[hruodr]

Is the whole not a little complicated?

I have now a keyboard without numpad. I want to have at the right hand a touchpad,
with the left I want alt-1, alt-2 and alt-3 as buttons.

Any idea to do it with simple commands and not whole remapping of the keyboard?

 

[cracauer@]

xmodmap is actually the ideal surgical tool to lightly modify an existing key map.

Try to remap a modifier key into a straight key in Windows or Mac. You'll be making a whole new keyboard driver before you know it. With xmodmap it's 3 lines of script.

Dunno about how Wayland would do that. Anyone?

 

[hruodr]

xmodmap is actually the ideal surgical tool to lightly modify an existing key map.

Unfortunately very limited, that is why xkb appeared later.

I have at the left only Super_L and Alt_L keys, both in use and assigned to mod4
and mod1, out of reach of xmodmap that it needs it as Mode_switch.