What's the best way to get macro keys working on Plasma?

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What’s the best way to get macro keys working on Plasma? Is there something very simple that can be done under keyboard shortcuts?

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I’ve been using Input Remapper (by sezanzeb/input-remapper on Github, I can’t post links because forum rules for new users). Works across both Wayland and X11 (something I unfortunately still have to switch between often), supports both button combos and macros.

App is in maintenance mode but I consider it feature complete.

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Thanks. Guess I’ll mention it to my brother. He’s trying to ditch Windows because the Recall feature scare lit a fire under his behind to push him to switch. So, he’s giving it another go. But I am glad I just kept my peripherals simple when I switched to Linux 8 years ago.

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Can you describe what “macro keys” means in this context?

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From what my brother said to me, it’s setting a key combination on a special key. That special key on the board is a macro key. So, instead of pressing ctrl+alt+F1, he could just apply that to a single macro key to simulate that key combination.

I don’t know. I just never cared to use nonsense like this. It seems like the current Windows power users, with their fancy peripherals, make their lives more complicated for no reason at all I find.

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