Rasmus's questions

TL;DR

Under Wayland, can I somehow bind AltGr + C to Ctrl + C?

Details

I basically want to ask this question, but for GNOME on Wayland. This means that answers involving AutoKey and xbindkeys wont work, as neither works under Wayland.

Background

I would like to remap some keys to ultimately make better use of CapsLock.

My plan is to map CapsLock to AltGr, and then follow this to obtain vim-like keybindings. On Wayland, this remapping can be done through XKB files (see the link).

However, I would also like to use CapsLock for copy/pasting. Currently, I have it mapped to Ctrl (using XKB files). This makes CapsLock + C work smoothly throughout the system, and I would like to preserve this.

So: With CapsLock mapped to AltGr, I would like Capslock (= AltGr) + C to act as Ctrl + C.

My question

Under Wayland, can I somehow bind AltGr + C to Ctrl + C?

(Without just rebinding AltGr to Ctrl, as that would defeat the purpose)

An alternative example with Q

In the XKB file for latin /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/latin, the following behavior is defined for my Q key:

key <AD01>  { [ q, Q, at, Greek_OMEGA ] };

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