Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Richard Hansen <rhan...@rhansen.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : keyd Version : 2.4.3 Upstream Contact: Raheman Vaiya <r.va...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd * License : Expat Programming Lang: C Description : Keyboard key remapping daemon for Linux keyd is a system-wide key remapping daemon which supports features like layering, oneshot modifiers, and macros. In its most basic form it can be used to define a custom key layout that persists across display server boundaries (e.g wayland/X/tty). Why I'm packaging this: I converted my Chromebook to a normal laptop running Debian, and use keyd to work around the device's limited keyboard (no Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, or Del keys, among others). Unlike tools like xmodmap, keyd works at a low level (via Linux kernel interfaces evdev and uinput), so it works with X11, Wayland, and VTs without needing any environment-specific support. As far as I know, no existing Debian package provides similar low-level functionality. keyd's feature set overlaps with kmonad (https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad) which also merits packaging. I'm packaging keyd instead of kmonad because keyd is considerably simpler, and I'm unfamiliar with the Haskell ecosystem (kmonad is written in Haskell). I am not a DD or DM, so I would like some team or DD to volunteer to co-maintain and sponsor uploads. I'm not sure which team would be the best match; suggestions would be appreciated. Maybe the input method team (https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/IMEPackagingTeam) would be interested; I'll ping them if nobody has an alternative suggestion.
