Monday, July 16, 2018

Exercise in futility: evdev

Each new install of linux entails revising customizations in day long attempts to get the new environment working as it was in a previous incarnation.

Simply copying the evdev.mouseless files did not work as they caused an archaic

"Error loading new keyboard description"

each time a custom keybinding option was called such as

"setxkbmap -option windows_ctrl:ctrl_fkey"

After a nightmare multi-hour run around, trying to move files around, taking directives out, replacing symlinks with actual files, it all just started working again. One un tested culprit could have been the cache in /var/lib/xkb/, which was empty when the code started working again.

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