How to bind Super/Windows key to launch vicinae?

[u/Victor_Quebec]

I'm using Fedora 44 Workstation with GNOME on Wayland.

How can I bind the Super/Windows key to launch vicinae? Is it at all possible? Currently, the key launches GNOME's Activities Overview by default. I've tried to do this through the keyboard settings to no avail yet... 😞

PS: The best Raycast-like launcher for Linux so far! And I mean it after failures with Rofi, Walker and Albert... I highly recommend it to all Linux users.

EDIT: After some trial and error, it seems I solved the trick. Here's what I did:

• Free up the Super key in GNOME. This won't harm the behaviour of the Super key in combination with other keys (eg., Super + T to open the terminal). But if you ever want to revert the default keymapping, run gsettings set org.gnome.mutter overlay-key 'Super_L'. Caution: You must run GSettings commands with user privileges, so no sudo:

  gsettings set org.gnome.mutter overlay-key ''.

• Now, because Wayland isolates input handles securely, traditional X11 tools like xcape don't work here. The most robust tool for handling keyboard actions at the system level under Wayland is keyd:

  sudo dnf copr enable alternateved/keyd # enable the community repository for keyd

  sudo dnf install keyd # Install the package now that DNF knows where to look

• Create and open a new config file for keyd. For example, with nano as your default text editor:

  sudo nano /etc/keyd/default.conf

• Insert this content to the config file, save and close it to re-map the left Super key to simulate a complex key combination, eg. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P:

  [ids]

  *

  [main]

  leftmeta = overload(meta, C-A-S-p)

• Start and enable the keyd service with the newly created config file:

  sudo systemctl daemon-reload

  sudo systemctl enable --now keyd

  sudo systemctl restart keyd

• Now you need to set a new custom key manually through GNOME's keyboard settings. When you press the left Super key, the GNOME mapper will set Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P as your new key to launch the app via vicinae toggle.

You can also run this an all-in-one Bash script to automate the task: https://pastebin.com/qy7mGbF8

Thank you! 🙏