Key mapping for Lazarus IDE etc.
lazarus / 32-Linux

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MarkMLl · 2023-05-09 12:57

This is more in the nature of a "heads up" than anything else.

For the last few years I've been using either a gamer's keyboard or a
simple gamepad to allow me to get at some of the IDE facilities
without having to remember peculiar key combinations, as described at
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_IDE_with_Nostromo_Keypad_on_Linux
etc.

A few months ago I both swapped PCs (after a hardware failure) and
moved to Debian bookworm/testing since I anticipated needing the
newest-possible library releases to rebuild something. By and large,
it's not been too bad.

However, it looks as though the mxk program that I was using to remap
input events doesn't like the swap: while it will still run as a
daemon the mapping doesn't actually work so instead I have to start it
using GNU Screen.

My suspicion is that this is something at the kernel level: I'm now
using 6.1 while I was previously (I think) on 4.19.

I mention this in case anybody else using similar software suddenly
finds that an assistive peripheral stops working.

MarkMLl