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I have a Dell XPS 13 7390 and the arrow keys are super close to the page up/down buttons. That makes it annoying when trying to use arrows when coding/typing. To resolve this I'm going to remove the page up/down keys and turn those into left and right (the arrow keys they are closest to).

Finding keycodes/actions

xev will log the keycodes and actions for each key press in the terminal, for me these were:

Key Keycode Action
Right 114 Right
Left 113 Left
Page Down 117 Dont Care
Page Up 112 Dont Care

Changing Keys

  • I want to change Page Down (117) to Right (Action) 

    xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Right"

  • I want to change Page Up (112) to Left (Action)

xmodmap -e "keycode 112 = Left"

Result

Left Up Right

Left Down Right

Startup

Create a startup script that makes the key mapping changes "permanent"

mkdir startup && cd startup/

touch keymap.sh
chmod +x keymap.sh

Add commands to script

xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Right"
xmodmap -e "keycode 112 = Left"

Add script to startup by opening startup applications

  • Name - Keymap
  • Command - Browse to ~/startup/keymap.sh
  • Comments - map pgup to left and pgdn to right

Restart or Logout/Login to test

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Last update: September 30, 2020