{"id":290114,"date":"2026-07-16T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/remapping-the-useless-ai-slop-copilot-key-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:50:06","slug":"remapping-the-useless-ai-slop-copilot-key-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/remapping-the-useless-ai-slop-copilot-key-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Remapping the Useless AI Slop Copilot Key in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remapping the Useless AI Slop Copilot Key in Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/itsfoss.com\/remap-copilot-key-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-16 05:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: itsfoss.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I recently bought an external Dell keyboard that came with a dedicated Copilot key. Since I don’t use Microsoft’s Copilot, the key was doing nothing useful.<\/p>\n

\"TheMy new Dell Keyboard comes with a CoPilot key<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I decided to map it to the YouTube Music web app. There is no such app, but I created it as a PWA using Vivaldi. <\/p>\n

In theory, it seems like a trivial thing, but making the Copilot key launch that web app came up as a decent challenge. And hence this tutorial.<\/p>\n

My first attempt was using KDE’s System Settings \u2192 Keyboard \u2192 Shortcuts. I created a shortcut for the YouTube Music PWA and tried assigning the Copilot key to it. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, KDE only detected the key as Meta+Shift and completely ignored the function key that was part of the key combination.<\/p>\n

After a bit of searching, I came across a Reddit post that suggested using the keyd utility to remap the key at a lower level. That turned out to be exactly what I needed.<\/p>\n

Instead of trying to use the original key combination, I remapped the Copilot key to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12. It is a key combination that is rarely used, making shortcut conflicts highly unlikely.<\/p>\n

Why KDE Can’t Detect the Copilot Key<\/h2>\n

On my keyboard, pressing the Copilot key actually sends Meta+Shift+F23<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The problem is that KDE’s shortcut recorder only captures the Meta+Shift<\/strong> modifiers and ignores the F23<\/strong> key entirely. As a result, it is impossible to assign the Copilot key directly through the graphical settings.<\/p>\n

The solution is to intercept the key before KDE receives it and translate it into another shortcut that KDE can recognize normally. This is exactly what keyd<\/strong> does.<\/p>\n

Install keyd<\/h2>\n

On Arch Linux, install keyd using:<\/p>\n

sudo pacman -S keyd<\/p>\n

It is also available in the official repositories of Ubuntu 26.04 and above.<\/p>\n

Enable and start the service:<\/p>\n

sudo systemctl enable –now keyd<\/p>\n

Verify that it is running:<\/p>\n

sudo systemctl status keyd<\/p>\n

Identify Your Keyboard<\/h2>\n

First, identify the vendor and product ID of your external…
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