| Summary: | Allow swapping Meta and Ctrl keys for terminal input | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | Katalin Rebhan <me> |
| Component: | keyboard | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 24.12.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
SUMMARY On my system I swap the Ctrl and Meta keys using the keyboard options to get more Mac-like bindings without switching the keys in every application (which is only usually possible in anything KDE based anyway). Therefore, in Konsole, pressing Meta+C will now be ^C while I'd still like it to be Ctrl+C so that I can use Meta+C for the copy action, like in every other application. Right now, I have a custom keytab based off the macOS one, where I've replaced every instance of Ctrl with Meta, and added bindings for every key+Ctrl to send \x00 to basically make it ignore any combinations of that key (\x00 since setting it to an empty string seems to make the binding be ignored and use the default setting). I'm using the macOS one since that is the only one that defines enough keys to work well enough for this replacement. This is obviously not ideal, because of the extra work and also because the base macOS keytab seems to be slightly different to what the shell expects on Linux (for example sending \x01 for ^A seems to be incorrect as it does nothing). I'd like a way to remap physical (or logical rather, since this already goes through the xkbmap transformation) keyboard modifier keys to essentially revert the change I've done in keyboard settings to swap Meta and Ctrl for the terminal input. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Swap Meta and Ctrl in keyboard settings ("Meta is mapped to Win", "Swap Left Win with Left Ctrl", "Swap Right Win with Right Ctrl") OBSERVED RESULT Terminal control key is now also mapped to Meta EXPECTED RESULT There should be a way to revert this for Konsole so that pressing ctrl+c on the keyboard will once again send ^C etc., and meta+c can be used for Copy. This is how it works on the Mac. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Gentoo Linux 2.17 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.12.9-gentoo-dist (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 24 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700F Memory: 62.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Product Name: MS-7D25 System Version: 1.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION