key binding by key code

[not-reed]

I am currently binding shortcuts to a small macropad which uses F13-F21 keys. My issue is that these keys are marked as sym: NoSymbol so i don't think I can use them as keybindings in niri?

wev output:

[14:     wl_keyboard] key: serial: 931204; time: 18178531; key: 191; state: 1 (pressed)
                      sym: NoSymbol     (0), utf8: ''
[14:     wl_keyboard] key: serial: 931205; time: 18178657; key: 191; state: 0 (released)
                      sym: NoSymbol     (0), utf8: ''
[14:     wl_keyboard] key: serial: 931206; time: 18178951; key: 192; state: 1 (pressed)
                      sym: NoSymbol     (0), utf8: ''
[14:     wl_keyboard] key: serial: 931207; time: 18179041; key: 192; state: 0 (released)
                      sym: NoSymbol     (0), utf8: ''
[14:     wl_keyboard] key: serial: 931208; time: 18179348; key: 193; state: 1 (pressed)
                      sym: NoSymbol     (0), utf8: ''
[14:     wl_keyboard] key: serial: 931209; time: 18179457; key: 193; state: 0 (released)
                      sym: NoSymbol     (0), utf8: ''

it would be nice to be able to map these by the key property directly

[bbb651]

You could solve this with xkb configuration, from a quick search I found this reddit comment and this blog post, put the xkb file somewhere and include it with the config:

input {
    keyboard {
        xkb {
            file "~/.config/keymap.xkb"
        }
    }
}

[not-reed]

oh thats great thank you! I too found myself editing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet and thinking there has to be a better solution 😄

[YaLTeR]

I thought there was a discussion already but I guess no. But yeah, there's no niri way to bind by key code atm

[not-reed]

I searched but didn't find anything, please delete if its found to be a dupe 🤝