keyd is a key remapping solution that provides a flexible system-wide daemon for remapping keys using kernel-level input primitives (evdev, uinput).

Target

• speed
• simplicity
• consistency
• Modular

features

• Key reloading (different behavior on click/hold)
• Client-server model for easy scripting and display server-independent application remapping
• System-wide configuration
• Unicode support
• …

rely

• C compiler
• Linux kernel header files