{"id":34151,"date":"2021-07-12T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34151"},"modified":"2023-03-29T05:06:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T05:06:30","slug":"remap-keyboard-gamepad-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/remap-keyboard-gamepad-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remap Keyboard \/ Gamepad in Ubuntu Easily with This Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to remap your keyboard or gamepad keys in Ubuntu Linux? It’s easy to do this via Input Remapper<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Input Remapper is a free and open-source tool written in Python 3. With it, you can change the mapping for input devices, including mouse<\/b>, keyboard<\/b>, and gamepad<\/b>.<\/p>\n

It works on both X11 and Wayland, and supports for mapping to combined buttons (e.g., Control+A) and programmable macros.<\/p>\n

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The software has an easy to use interface. Simply start the app, choose the device (e.g., keyboard) to you want to remap, then click add new preset and do:<\/p>\n

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    1. Click ‘Add’ button in left to add an item.<\/li>\n
    2. Click the pencil icon and type a name.<\/li>\n
    3. Use “Record” button to record the original keyboard key or key combination.<\/li>\n
    4. Choose device to map the input key to.<\/li>\n
    5. Finally, type the output key, e.g., letter (a, b, …, z), number (1, 2, …, 9), and\/or function keys (Alt_L Control_L Control_R Shift_L Shift_R)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Presets are saved in user’s .config\/input-remapper-2\/presets<\/code> folder. You can use them in another machine that can read these “.json<\/i>” files.<\/p>\n

      How to Install Input Remapper in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n

      The software offers official .deb<\/b> package for Ubuntu \/ Debian based systems.<\/p>\n

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      Download Input Remapper (.deb)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

      Grab the deb package, then open terminal and run command to install it:<\/p>\n

      sudo apt install ~\/Downloads\/input-remapper*.deb<\/pre>\n
      It should work on all current Ubuntu releases since it requires only a few python modules.<\/p>\n
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      Once installed, open it from system app launcher and enjoy!<\/p>\n
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      (Optional<\/b>) For choice, there’s command to remove the tool from Ubuntu:<\/p>\n
      sudo apt remove --autoremove input-remapper<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Want to remap your keyboard or gamepad keys in Ubuntu Linux? It’s easy to do this via Input Remapper. Input Remapper is a free and open-source tool written in Python 3. With it, you can change the mapping for input devices, including mouse, keyboard, and gamepad. It works on both X11 and Wayland, and supports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1994],"class_list":["post-34151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-key-remapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}