How to remap copilot key?

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Related discussion here: How to get System Settings to recognize the f23 part of copilot key(combo)

Brief summary:

  1. The Copilot key emits the combination Meta+Shift+F23
  2. 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.
  3. 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?)
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