I just converted my Chromebook from chromeos to ubuntu and I am an still doing a few remaining tweaks. However I am having trouble, essentially what I want to do is the following:
Change the search button to Caps Lock Change the function of my undo, redo, and refresh buttons so whenever I am in my Chrome browser I can go back on a tab or refresh it without having to click the actual browser refresh button.
Many thanks in advance!
Use xbindkeys..
sudo apt-get install xbindkeys
Xbindkeys is a very versatile program that lets you remap keys very easily. It uses a config file, my default located in your home directory, to change key bindings into certain commands.
To create a default config file you use the command:
xbindkeys --defaults
Which prints the default config file. So if you want to create the file containing the default values you would use:
xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc
Which prints the default values into a hidden file named .xbindkeysrc located in home (~).
Now to actually change the bindings of keys we first need to know what the name or keysym of those keys is. xbindkeys allows us to use the -k handle to find the name of a key or key combination. Run:
xbindkeys -k
And press a key or key combination. Your output will look something similar to this (when pressing space):
"NoCommand"
m:0x10 + c:65
Mod2 + space
"No Command" tells us that currently no command is associated with the Space key.
m:0x10 + c:65
Mod2 + space
Is the name of the key/key combination.
the config file..
Lets open up the config file you made earlier:
gedit .xbindkeysrc
Here is an excerpt from the default config file:
#
# A list of keys is in /usr/include/X11/keysym.h and in
# /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
# The XK_ is not needed.
#
# List of modifier:
# Release, Control, Shift, Mod1 (Alt), Mod2 (NumLock),
# Mod3 (CapsLock), Mod4, Mod5 (Scroll).
#
# The release modifier is not a standard X modifier, but you can
# use it if you want to catch release events instead of press events
# By defaults, xbindkeys does not pay attention with the modifiers
# NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock.
# Uncomment the lines above if you want to pay attention to them.
#keystate_numlock = enable
#keystate_capslock = enable
#keystate_scrolllock= enable
# Examples of commands:
"xbindkeys_show"
control+shift + q
Every line beginning with # is a comment and won't be read or run by xbindkeys.
So far the only line that isn't commented out is:
"xbindkeys_show"
control+shift + q
This excerpt shows the basic syntax of xbindkeys commands:
"Command to run (in quotes)"
key to associate with command (no quotes)
So as you can see:
"xbindkeys_show"
control+shift + q
Runs the command xbindkeys_show when you press Ctrl+Shift+q.
