MNT Pocket Reform: Early Impression

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@robheghan

1. Is there no easy to way to switch middle-mouse-button and scroll-button without compiling my own firmware? It’d be great to have a visual tool for remapping keys (and as a cheat-sheet)

I use a userspace tool, keyd, to remap my keyboard keys. I believe it works for the trackball buttons too.

I used evtest to get the names of the keys I wanted to remap, then I wrote this config file to shuffle around some of the right hand modifier and punctuation keys:

[ids]
*

[main]
rightalt = rightshift
apostrophe = semicolon
slash = apostrophe
semicolon = slash

You probably would want to replace [ids] * with the actual ID of the keyboard/trackball device to avoid buttons on other mice getting moved around. evtest also says the ID of the device.

Remapping keyboard without firmware modification (adding SysRq key)

I also wanted to remap AltGr to shift on my Pocket Reform. Using hwdb and udev also didn’t work for me. To add more detail to that, I was able to remap several other keys to shift, for example I could turn 1 or x into a shift key – not very useful, but an interesting test. But for some reason I couldn’t remap AltGr to anything. @henesy 's suggestion of evremap probably would have worked fine for me, but I picked keyd, which is also works on the Linux console, not just graphical environments. …