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diff --git a/src/SW/xf86-input-evdev/document.en.rest.txt b/src/SW/xf86-input-evdev/document.en.rest.txt index 04dafaa..4935fed 100644 --- a/src/SW/xf86-input-evdev/document.en.rest.txt +++ b/src/SW/xf86-input-evdev/document.en.rest.txt @@ -6,6 +6,27 @@ :tags: - software - keyboard +.. admonition:: There's a better way! + + These days, the recommended input driver for X11 is + ``xf86-input-libinput``, so I've stopped maintaining this patch. + + Fortunately, there's a much simpler way to get the same result: you + can tell the kernel to remap codes for you, independently for each + keyboard you may have, via the ``udev`` "HW DB". + + In ``/etc/udev/hwdb.d/50-apple-kbd.hwdb`` I have:: + + evdev:input:b0003v05ACp0221* + KEYBOARD_KEY_ff0003=insert # fn -> insert + + (*Important*: the second line starts with exactly 1 space (0x20) + character) + + This `Arch documentation page + <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes>`_ + has all the details. + The standard ``xf86-input-evdev`` driver that comes with `xorg` only uses keycodes between 8 and 255, dropping all others. This is fine most of the time (who ever saw a keyboard with more than 247 keys on |