waybind

I wrote this to fill my need of doing simple rebindings to match the behaviour of my 60% keyboard on my laptop's keyboard. I'm using sway and I couldn't find suitable software for my needs.

It simply creates a virtual keyboard and repeats keystrokes from your keyboard, except when it detects the configured rebindings, then it replaces those keystrokes.

If you want to do complex macros take a look at Hawck. Waybind will never support those use cases.

There's nothing wayland specific about this rebinder, there's just no shortage of keyboard rebinders for X11, hence the name.

Config

device: /dev/input/event0
rebinds:
  # Binds KEY_GRAVE to KEY_ESC
  # If modifier KEY_CAPSLOCK is also pressed then it's still KEY_GRAVE but KEY_CAPSLOCK is removed
  # If modifier is KEY_SHIFTLEFT then it's KEY_SHIFLEFT + KEY_GRAVE
  - from: KEY_GRAVE
    to: KEY_ESC
    with_modifiers:
      - modifier: KEY_CAPSLOCK
        to: KEY_GRAVE
      - modifier: KEY_LEFTSHIFT
        to: SKIP

  # Binds KEY_CAPSLOCK + KEY_BACKSPACE to KEY_DELETE
  - from: KEY_BACKSPACE
    with_modifiers:
      - modifier: KEY_CAPSLOCK
        to: KEY_DELETE

  # KEY_CAPSLOCK + KEY_F12 will make waybind exit
  - from: KEY_F12
    with_modifiers:
      - modifier: KEY_CAPSLOCK
        to: EXIT

  # Completely unbind KEY_CAPSLOCK
  - from: KEY_CAPSLOCK
    unbind: true