Keyboard shortcuts priority (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Motorheadbanger@lemmy.world to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Hello, Ubuntu Studio/KDE here.

Is there any way to change the shortcuts priority? For example, there is a way to switch to keyboard layout 1 by pressing left Ctrl, and to layout 2 by pressing right Ctrl, but in that case any other shortcut that has Ctrl stops working. If I set the layout switching to Ctrl+Shift, any shortcut using Ctrl+Shift+anything else won't work.

On windows, there is a third-party program that allows selecting layouts via right and left Ctrl, and it doesn't interfere with any shortcuts that use Ctrl, i.e. the layout change will trigger only with a single Ctrl press, no holding, no chords. Is there a (relatively easy) way to achieve this in Linux?

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[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 points 5 months ago

I don't have the answer to your problem, but this sort of thing can easily be done with a Vial compatible mechanical keyboard.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

but in that case any other shortcut that has Ctrl stops working.

Not so; if the action is bound to the key release, you can still use Ctrl as a modifier with other keys.

FWIW I use Windows key combos for most shortcuts; they never interfer with canonical shortcuts (like Ctrl-c, Alt-F4 etc.).

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