Remapping keyboard

[kklokreach]

Hi all,

Sorry not sure where this goes, but if it's wrong mods please move

I recently got a new mechanical keyboard (Aukey km-g12) and I actually like it alot but I want to move some keys around. Specifically I want to move the Fn, control and right click keys around. Is there a way I can remap the keys on this while also keeping the keyboard on my laptop the way it is? Also if anyone knows for both windows and linux (specifically mint) that would be great because i use both. Thanks!

[AdvocateOfNyx]

14 hours ago, kklokreach said:

Hi all,

Sorry not sure where this goes, but if it's wrong mods please move

I recently got a new mechanical keyboard (Aukey km-g12) and I actually like it alot but I want to move some keys around. Specifically I want to move the Fn, control and right click keys around. Is there a way I can remap the keys on this while also keeping the keyboard on my laptop the way it is? Also if anyone knows for both windows and linux (specifically mint) that would be great because i use both. Thanks!

I'm not sure about a way to do it without remapping the keys on your laptop at all, however assuming that you aren't using both keyboards at once, you could use a very simple AHK script to do it.  AutoHotkey (AHK) is not the easiest to use, but for what you want to do it wouldn't be difficult.  Whenever you wanted to remap the keys, you would just open a file.  When you wanted to change them back, you just close the program from your task bar.

 

If you're interested in giving it a shot, 

Download the program from this link and install it.  This is one of the few programs where it's fairly safe to click the express install option.  Once you're done, you're free to close it.  When you write the script, all you need to do is open a new text document (I prefer notepad for this) and write the script in it.  When you're done writing, click save as, and save it as remapping.ahk (the .ahk extension is important)

 

This is a very simple guide that should walk you through most of the scripting process for what you want to do, and alternatively there are plenty of online video/text based tutorials for remapping keys.  The basic idea is that typing a::b makes all "a" keystrokes send a "b."  You'll probably want to play around with this and find out what feels the best to you.