Hello. My laptop has a copilot key that I would like to remap. The only issue is when I try to remap it, the key is recognized as meta+shift. Pressing meta+shift would then execute the newly assigned shortcut, but pressing the copilot key results in nothing. It specifically results in nothing because the copilot key is not even meta+shift (to my knowledge), so I’m not sure why it’s being recognized as such.
I had issues with this key on both Windows and Linux Mint Cinnamon, so I doubt the issue is related to KDE Plasma. If there is a fix then please let me know!
The Copilot key emits the combination Meta+Shift+F23
With KDE Frameworks <= 6.17, Plasma didn’t allow F23 to be used as part of a shortcut - which is why you try to create a “Copilot” shortcut but what’s created is only a Meta+Shift shortcut without the F23. That’s fixed in Frameworks 6.18 - whether it’s available to you yet depends on your distro.
Tools like input-remapper can remap this key, but with some limitations. Remapping to a non-modifier key should work, but mapping to a modifier key is problematic. (For example, many users want to remap Copilot to Right Ctrl because of its position on the keyboard, but that’s not straightforward. You want Ctrl+C to behave differently from Ctrl+Shift+C, but when the machine receives the combination Meta+Shift+F23+C, how would it know whether the user pressed Copilot+C or Copilot+Shift+C?)