- Allow 64 character layer names
- Introduce a new device id format to distinguish between devices with identical product/vendor id pairs (backward compatible)
- Add KDE/plasma5 support to
keyd-application-mapper
- Gnome v45/v46 application remapping support
- Increases the maximum number of descriptors to allow for more advanced configs
- Add
setlayout()
to facilitate dynamically set layouts toggle()
now activates the layer on key down instead of key up- Improve support for exotic keys
- Various minor bug fixes
- Introduces a new layout type
- Improves application based remapping suport for wayland/X
- Adds
swap
support for toggled layers - Adds support for chording
- Numerous bugfixes and stability improvements
- togglem (#270)
- clear() (#253)
- overloadt (#309)
- overloadt2
- listen command (#294, #217)
- reload
- do
- input
- disable_modifier_guard (#257)
- oneshot_timeout option
- overload_tap_timeout
- macro_sequence_timeout (#255)
See the manpage for details.
- Add include directive to the config syntax
- Ship includable common layouts
- Allow comments in the ids section (#245)
- Create virtual pointer on initialization (#249)
- Misc bug fixes
- Route button presses through the virtual keyboard (#162)
- Improve mouse support
- Fix VT repeat bug
- Allow overload to accept an arbitrary action (#199)
- Add support for full key serquences to swap()
- Misc bugfixes
- Fix macro timeouts
- Allow timeouts to be used in conjunction with + (#181)
- Add macro2() to allow for per-macro timeout values (#176)
- Add command() to allow for command execution
- Add [global] section
- Improve unicode support
- Add support for older kernels (#163)
- Clear oneshot on click
- Various bugfixes and enhancements
- Add unicode support
- Add noop
- Fix keyd-application-mapper hotswapping
This is a major release which breaks backward compatibility with non trivial configs. It is best to reread the man page. Minimal breaking changes are expected moving forward.
- Introduce composite layers
- Add timeout()
- Simplify layer model
- Layer entries are now affected by active modifiers (current layer modifiers excepted)
- Eliminate layer types
- Eliminate -d
See DESIGN.md for a more thorough description of changes.
- Fix support for symlinked config files (#148)
- Improve out of the box handling of alt and meta overloading (#128)
- Add unicode support to keyd-application-mapper
- Various bugfixes and stability improvements
- Eliminate udev as a dependency
- Permit mapping to modifier key codes (still discouraged)
- Support for nested swapping
- Improve app detection
- Various bug fixes
- Add support for application mapping by title
- Fix macro timeouts
- Forbid modifier keycodes as lone right hand values in favour of layers
- Enable hot swapping of depressed keybindings via -e
- Improve support for application remapping
- Change panic sequence to
backspace+enter+escape
(#94) - Fix overload+modifer behaviour (#95)
- Move application bindings into ~/.config/keyd/app.conf.
- Add -d to keyd-application-mapper.
- Fix broken gnome support.
- Add a new IPC mechanism for dynamically altering the keymap (-e).
- Add experimental support for app specific bindings.
NOTE: This might break some configs (see below)
-
Change default modifier mappings to their full names (i.e
control = layer(control)
instead ofcontrol = layer(C)
in an unmodified key map)`. -
Modifier names are now syntactic sugar for assigning both associated key codes. E.G
control
corresponds to bothleftcontrol
andrightcontrol
when assigned instead of just the former. (Note: this also means it is no longer a valid right hand value) -
Fixes v1 overload regression (#74)
- Add + syntax to macros to allow for simultaenously held keys.
Major version update.
This breaks 1.x configs. The format may change slightly (see 2.3.0-rc) before leaving beta,
but once it does should remain backwards compatible for the foreseeable future.
A non exhaustive list of changes can be found below. It is best to forget everything you know and read man page anew.
-
Eliminate layer inheritance in favour of simple types. (layouts are now defined with
:layout
instead of:main
) -
Macros are now repeatable.
-
Overload now accepts a hold threshold timeout.
-
Config files are now vendor/product id oriented.
-
SIGUSR1 now triggers a config reload.
-
Modifiers are layers by default and can be extended directly.
-
Config files now end in
.conf
. -
layert()
is nowtoggle()
. -
All layers are 'modifier layers' (terminological change)
-
Eliminate the dedicated modifer layout.
-
Modifiers no longer apply to key sequences defined within a layer. (Layer entries are now always executed verbatim.)
The old behaviour was unintuitive and can be emulated using nested layers if necessary.
For most old configs transitioning should be a simple matter of changing
the file extension from .cfg
to .conf
, replacing layert
with
toggle
, changing :main
to :layout
and adding
[ids]
*
[main]
to the top of the file.
More involved configs may need additional changes, but should be possible to replicate using the new rules. If not, please file an issue on github.
- Make layert behaviour more intuitive when combined with oneshot() and layer().
- Add layert() to facilitate semipermanent-activation of occluding layers.
- Resolve layer conflicts by picking the one which was most recently activated.
Major version update:
- Introduce support for modifier layers.
- Simplify the config format.
- Improve consistency/expected key behaviour.
- Symbols can now be assigned directly place of their names (e.g
&
instead ofS-7
). - Macro support.
This breaks existing configs. Moving forward the config format is expected to remain backwards compatible.
Main Config Changes:
- Modifiers are now just treated as layers
- The default layer is now called main
- The modifier layout is distinct from the key layout
Config migration map:
mods_on_hold(C, esc) = overload(C, esc)
layer_on_hold(layer, esc) = overload(layer, esc)
layer_toggle(layer) = layout(layer)
layer(layer) = layer(layer)
oneshot(mods) = oneshot(mods)
oneshot_layer(layer) = oneshot(layer)
[dvorak:default] = [dvorak:main]
See the man page (man keyd
) for details.