I'm running archlinux on my thinkpad x1 carbon 5th gen which has some extra keys. These keys currently do nothing and I'd like to remap them.
Firstly, I tried getting their keycodes via xev
but they weren't being detected so I found out their keycodes via evtest.
Here are the results:
Event: time 1519668920.038747, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 45
Event: time 1519668920.038747, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 364 (KEY_FAVORITES), value 1
Event: time 1519668920.038747, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1519668920.038836, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 45
Event: time 1519668920.038836, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 364 (KEY_FAVORITES), value 0
Event: time 1519668920.038836, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1519668923.198764, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 49
Event: time 1519668923.198764, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 374 (KEY_KEYBOARD), value 1
Event: time 1519668923.198764, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1519668923.198883, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 49
Event: time 1519668923.198883, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 374 (KEY_KEYBOARD), value 0
Event: time 1519668923.198883, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
So tried mapping them to regular keys using xmodmap. For ex.
keycode 374 = F13
or
keycode 374 = XF86LaunchB
but was unsuccessful. How do I go about this? I have also tried to set the scan codes to keycodes via
setkeycoder 45 255
but to no avail.
Best Answer
The only thing that comes to mind is Gianni Ceccarelli's patched
xf86-input-evdev
which adds a newxorg
configuration option calledevent_key_remap
(details on his page).I can't test it with an actual keyboard - my laptop keyboard doesn't produce keycodes above
255
- but I've successfully used it in the past to remap buttons on remote controls for mythTV setups.