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Linux utility to configure modifier keys to act as other keys when pressed and released on their own.

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HydraMouse assigns various actions to the buttons of your mouse, even if it has more than 5 buttons! The actions can be system-wide or application-specific, and can be combined into macros.
  • xcape Landing page
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    2023-07-23
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    2021-10-28

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Category Popularity

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Automation
43 43%
Automation
57% 57
Note Taking
26 26%
Note Taking
74% 74
Windows Tools
60 60%
Windows Tools
40% 40
Tool
0 0%
Tool
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, xcape seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 17 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

xcape mentions (17)

  • Binding a single key on release AND binding that same key in another combination
    Don't know about i3, but you can achieve this in Linux/X11 using for example xcape: https://github.com/alols/xcape. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Keyboard shortcut on key release
    I guess that xcape is what you're looking for. Source: over 1 year ago
  • How to assign Overview to meta ?
    You can use xcape (I assume xorg only; https://github.com/alols/xcape) to set any key including super/meta to trigger a custom keyboard shortcut on release. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Have you remapped CTRL and ESC, and if so, how?
    Caps Lock is both Control and Escape depending on whether you hold or tap it. I use xcape. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Have you remapped CTRL and ESC, and if so, how?
    My CapsLock is an Esc right now. I use to use xcape program which would allow my caps lock to act as Esc when pressed alone, but in combination with another key it would act as Ctrl, which was very useful. That program no longer works on Wayland compositors but I have lost the habit of using the key as Ctrl anyway. Source: about 2 years ago
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HydraMouse mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of HydraMouse yet. Tracking of HydraMouse recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

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Microsoft keyboard layout creator - Edit the windows keyboard layout.

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