How to remap keyboard buttons in Linux

We have a laptop with a broken arrow key. It's quite annoying! I wondered how easy it would be to remap a different key to be the right arrow key? Turns out it was dead easy on Linux. This can be achieved using an application called Keyd. This was painless to install from source on Pop_OS. This also works system wide, and is not limited to your user session. git clone https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd cd keyd make && sudo make install sudo systemctl enable --now keyd Once installed, you need to edit the config file at /etc/keyd/default.conf. Mine now looks like this as I remapped the Right Ctrl to be the right arrow key. The ids section lets you filter events from specific keyboards or mice. I don't need to do this, so I left it as * which means 'everything'. [ids] * [main] rightcontrol = right Once this has done, reload keyd by running sudo keyd reload and you should be set. Per the documentation, if you need to remap different keys you can run sudo keyd monitor Reading keyd Monitor…