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Q&A How do I find the code of a keyboard key?

On X, open a terminal and run xev -event keyboard. You'll get a white box. Make sure this is focused and press the key. You should see some output in the terminal about what the key is. Particularl...

posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar matthewsnyder‭ · 2024-06-02T21:44:32Z (6 months ago)
On X, open a terminal and run `xev -event keyboard`. You'll get a white box. Make sure this is focused and press the key. You should see some output in the terminal about what the key is. Particularly, you probably want `keycode` and `keysym`.