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Is it possible to remap the Back/Forward keys of a Thinkpad USB keyboard on Linux?

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Mar 15, 20263380 views
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Problem

On my Thinkpad laptop I can easily change the Back/Forward keys to something else (I usually map them to PageDown/PageUp), as they have their own keycode (166 and 167): However, on my Thinkpad USB keyboard, the Back/Forward keys seem to be hard-mapped to Alt+Left and Alt+Right, respectively, so I cā€¦

Error Output

xmodmap -e 'keycode 166=Prior'
xmodmap -e 'keycode 167=Next'

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Fix for: Is it possible to remap the Back/Forward keys of a Thinkpad USB keyboard on Linux?

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I put this in my .bashrc: works great, but doesn't seem to cut it in virtualbox 6 for some reason.

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