I've found an app called keyd to be super useful for remapping keys to other keys. it doesn't map keys to scripts though.
That looks perfect, thanks!
I've never used it, but Espanso is a popular open-source alternative for AutoHotKey. Maybe that can work?
That looks similar to the other one I tried, so I don’t think it will work. The problem comes into play when holding down a key - the text expanders generally won’t repeat the key properly to work in the game for continuous movement.
Looks like a cool tool though and I’m going to check it out for other uses! Thanks!
I mostly play with the Steam Controller so I rely on Steam Input which works quite well but only if you’re playing on Steam.
Good thing we can add no steam games to steam. That's how I could have played Control(GOG) with full support for my controler.
Look into xmodmap.
xmodmap
I like this, it's very easy to understand the config file. I would like application specific mappings so I'm going to try keyd first, but I'll keep this in my back pocket. Thanks!
I use ESDF for movement
Yikes! However, back in the day I remember using zx*? for movement on the BBC Micro :-)
Yeah, I switched from arrow keys to ESDF going from Doom to Quake. WASD wasn't the 'default' yet back then. And by the time it got annoying with new games coming out, muscle memory was already there. If I could go back in time and do that over, it would save me at least several days of my life rebinding stuff over the years, lol.
It's a net positive, not a negative: using ESDF means you have a bunch of keys available to the left of your movement keys.
Sure, it can be a pain if a game forces WASD, but otherwise you're not the person having to lift your hand off the movement keys (or buying an MMO mouse) to have the same flexibility. 😄
It never occurred to me to see if Steam could do this remapping without using a controller. I’ll have to investigate! Good tip, thanks.
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