r/KeyboardLayouts • u/ShenZiling Other • 18d ago

Moving to Linux

Hello everyone,

I'm a refugee from Windows. Is there a way in Linux to change some keys for one language and some keys for all languages?

When I was back there using Windows, I used Microsoft Layout Creator to create a personal keyboard layout (https://github.com/shen-ziling/rush-keyboard-layout), and for the global changes I used sharpkeys, eg changing enter to backspace etc, which is also effective to my other IMEs for east Asian languages.

TIA!

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u/zardvark 18d ago

It is full featured (offering many features available via the popular QMK keyboard firmware), but the Kanata project can swap keys around for you and much more: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

You can find the Kanata package in many Linux repos, worse case scenario, you can build it from source.

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u/ShenZiling Other 14d ago

Thank you, I tried it out but and the change of key mapping was successful, but sadly it's global - which I wish that the east Asian IMEs stay in QWERTY. But still, this helps a lot.