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Daniel Rosehill
Asked: 2019-10-11 02:09:40 +0800 CST

How do I remap a default keyboard combination?

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The shift + 3 combination on my keyboard layout (Irish English, en_IE) by default gives the British currency symbol (£). Unfortunately there's no easy combination to give a hashtag as far as I can tell.

What's the easiest way of remapping the Sterling symbol to give a hashtag?

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1 Answers

  1. take backup of the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ie

    sudo cp /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ie /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ie.backup

    Open the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ie with gedit

    sudo -H gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ie

    edit the line like below

    key <AE03> { [            3,    numbersign,            copyright,        threesuperior ] };

    Save the file, Close and refresh the shell Alt+F2 r enter

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