On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 10:54:55AM +0300, Divan Santana wrote: > Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 12:50:46PM +0300, Divan Santana wrote: > >> Greetings :) > >> > >> Do you know if there is a native way in openbsd to make the enter key > >> double as a mod like super? (not using xcape) > > > > Yes, you can do it with xmodmap. > > > > For example, to keep normal functionality of enter but make shift-enter into > > another control key: > > > > keycode 36 = Return Control_L Return Control_L > > add Control = Control_L > > > > Note that you need the 'add Control' line, just adding the Control_L keysym > > to > > the keycode isn't enough. > > Thanks. I guess I should have mentioned not with xcape or xmodmap > either. > > I was hoping to achieve this at a lower level like in wsconsctl.conf for > two reasons: > > - xcape/xmodmap have performance issues in emacs exwm > https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm/wiki#issues-with-xmodmap > - xcape/xmodmap don't apply system wide. Alternatives that work well on > Linux is kmonad etc, but I can't seem to find something similar on > openbsd.
For X11, your best option for lower level configuration would be to look at /usr/X11R6/bin/setxkbmap. For use on the console you can just use something like: wsconsctl keyboard.map+="Keycode 28 = Control_L" But this won't affect the keycodes that X11 receives.
