This patch allows users to swap the Fn and left Control keys on all Apple keyboards: internal (e.g. Macbooks) and external (both wired and wireless). The patch adds a new hid-apple module param: swap_fn_leftctrl (off by default).
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Semenov <m...@free5lot.com> --- This patch was created to eliminate the inconvenience of having an unusual order of 4 left-bottom keys on Apple keyboards for GNU+Linux users. Now it's possible to swap the Fn and left Control keys on Macbooks and external Apple keyboards and have the same experience as on usual PC layout. The patch has been heavily tested for about 5 years by community at: https://github.com/free5lot/hid-apple-patched The patch is small and straightforward. The modified version of hid-apple is currently mentioned in wiki-documentation of several major GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE). --- hid-apple.c.orig 2020-05-12 11:06:26.000000000 +0300 +++ hid-apple.c 2020-05-15 20:00:00.000000000 +0300 @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(swap_opt_cmd, "Swap the "(For people who want to keep Windows PC keyboard muscle memory. " "[0] = as-is, Mac layout. 1 = swapped, Windows layout.)"); +static unsigned int swap_fn_leftctrl; +module_param(swap_fn_leftctrl, uint, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(swap_fn_leftctrl, "Swap the Fn and left Control keys. " + "(For people who want to keep PC keyboard muscle memory. " + "[0] = as-is, Mac layout, 1 = swapped, PC layout)"); + struct apple_sc { unsigned long quirks; unsigned int fn_on; @@ -162,6 +168,11 @@ static const struct apple_key_translatio { } }; +static const struct apple_key_translation swapped_fn_leftctrl_keys[] = { + { KEY_FN, KEY_LEFTCTRL }, + { } +}; + static const struct apple_key_translation *apple_find_translation( const struct apple_key_translation *table, u16 from) { @@ -183,9 +194,11 @@ static int hidinput_apple_event(struct h bool do_translate; u16 code = 0; - if (usage->code == KEY_FN) { + u16 fn_keycode = (swap_fn_leftctrl) ? (KEY_LEFTCTRL) : (KEY_FN); + + if (usage->code == fn_keycode) { asc->fn_on = !!value; - input_event(input, usage->type, usage->code, value); + input_event(input, usage->type, KEY_FN, value); return 1; } @@ -270,6 +283,14 @@ static int hidinput_apple_event(struct h } } + if (swap_fn_leftctrl) { + trans = apple_find_translation(swapped_fn_leftctrl_keys, usage->code); + if (trans) { + input_event(input, usage->type, trans->to, value); + return 1; + } + } + return 0; } @@ -333,6 +354,11 @@ static void apple_setup_input(struct inp for (trans = apple_iso_keyboard; trans->from; trans++) set_bit(trans->to, input->keybit); + + if (swap_fn_leftctrl) { + for (trans = swapped_fn_leftctrl_keys; trans->from; trans++) + set_bit(trans->to, input->keybit); + } } static int apple_input_mapping(struct hid_device *hdev, struct hid_input *hi,
