On 2021-09-13 11:16 a.m., Paul Smith wrote:
Thanks, Samuel. Yes, it causes mouse clicks.
I assume you're happy with those.
"evtest" recognizes my drawing tablet, and when I
successively hit the
express keys I get the following:
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Event: time 1631556826.892457, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 700e0
Event: time 1631556826.892457, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 29 (KEY_LEFTCTRL), value 1
Event: time 1631556826.892457, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70013
Event: time 1631556826.892457, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 25 (KEY_P), value 1
Event: time 1631556826.892457, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
^PEvent: time 1631556828.294629, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 700e0
Event: time 1631556828.294629, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 29 (KEY_LEFTCTRL), value 1
Event: time 1631556828.294629, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70008
Event: time 1631556828.294629, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 18 (KEY_E), value 1
Event: time 1631556828.294629, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
^EEvent: time 1631556829.256745, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 700e0
Event: time 1631556829.256745, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 29 (KEY_LEFTCTRL), value 1
Event: time 1631556829.256745, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7000f
Event: time 1631556829.256745, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 38 (KEY_L), value 1
Event: time 1631556829.256745, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
^LEvent: time 1631556830.196848, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 7004b
Event: time 1631556830.196848, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 104 (KEY_PAGEUP), value 1
Event: time 1631556830.196848, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
So the buttons are sending key combinations. You probably don't want to
remap those globally, so I suggest using something like
https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad or
https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd to
remap the keys.
keyd only remaps, but doesn't run scripts, so you would have to remap
the key to another one that you can use as a hotkey.
kmonad allows you to run scripts as well.