Jumping back and forth between Mac and Linux is OK most of the time, but one the pain point has been keyboard shortcut.
This is annoying when using Chrome, and is extremely annoying when copying things from Chrome to terminal (I configured Alt-C and Alt-V for copy&paste in gnome-terminal) or vice versa.
xkeysnail is great and can easily remap shortcuts. However it is a bit cumbersome to use. kinto offers a nice integration by offering xkeysnail systemd service, a UI to quickly generate a default xkeysnail config file (might be good enough for some users, but unfortunately not suitable to me), a debugger and a more or less standardized file structure.
This is what I configured in $HOME/.config/kinto/kinto.py:
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# autostart = true
import re
from xkeysnail.transform import *
# Use the following for testing keymaps
# xbindkeys -mk
excluded = [x.casefold() for x in ["emacs", "gnome-terminal"]]
excluded_str = "|".join(str(x) for x in excluded)
define_multipurpose_modmap(
# {Key.ENTER: [Key.ENTER, Key.RIGHT_CTRL] # Enter2Cmd
# {Key.CAPSLOCK: [Key.ESC, Key.RIGHT_CTRL] # Caps2Esc
# {Key.LEFT_META: [Key.ESC, Key.RIGHT_CTRL] # Caps2Esc - Chromebook
{ # Placeholder
})
define_keymap(lambda param: not re.compile(excluded_str, re.IGNORECASE).search(param),{
K("LM-T"): K("LC-T"),
K("LM-W"): K("LC-W"),
K("LM-F"): K("LC-F"),
K("LM-R"): K("LC-R"),
K("LM-C"): K("LC-C"),
K("LM-V"): K("LC-V"),
K("LM-L"): K("LC-L"),
K("LM-LShift-T"): K("LC-LShift-T"),
})