Hey folks, thanks for all of your recommendations for distros a while back. I ended up settling on Fedora KDE, and have been futzing around with it on my old laptop just for funsies.

I’ve re-encountered an old problem though. The laptop’s Caps Lock and F1 keys are busted, sending in dozens of keypresses per second even when unpressed. I solved this on windows with a bit of a headache (using a program to disable those keys), but I have no idea how to solve it in this environment. I’ve tried futzing with keyd with little success, and my search powers are really failing me here.

Any advice?

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    6 days ago

    there’s multiple ways to skin this cat, but in your shoes: i would use xmodmap to remap or disable those keys.

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      6 days ago

      Isn’t xmodmap specific to X11? Fedora tends to be on Wayland by default, and I’m fairly certain their KDE version is

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        6 days ago

        That’s true; I haven’t modified my keyboard in decades and this shows it.