[{"categories":null,"contents":"I recently got Logitech MX Keys for Mac keyboard at work. The German version, to be more precise. This version was three times cheaper than the Windows equivalent with either US or ES layout. Since I touch type anyway, I thought it was a bargain.\nAs soon as I plugged it in, I realized there were some glaring issues with the keyboard. First of all, the Meta/Super and Alt keys are reversed in this keyboard. In the normal/full version of this keyboard, Logitech gives an option to choose between Mac, Windows and iOS host, and that changes the behavior of the keys. In this version, tho, only iOS and Mac are available.\nBesides that, there\u0026rsquo;s the issue of the grave (tilde) and angle keys switched as well.\nSwitching these keys around would be very easy with Xorg, but Wayland once again complicates things\u0026hellip;\nThese issues almost made me return the keyboard. Luckily, tho, there is another option: configuring the keys one level lower than wayland (and X11), through hwdb.\nLong story short, this will configure any Logitech keyboard with the same product id (0x4092) to use a saner configuration:\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 #File: /etc/udev/hwdb.d/90-logitech-keyboard.hwdb evdev:input:b0003v046Dp4092* KEYBOARD_KEY_700e2=leftmeta KEYBOARD_KEY_700e3=leftalt KEYBOARD_KEY_70039=leftctrl KEYBOARD_KEY_70064=102nd KEYBOARD_KEY_70035=grave KEYBOARD_KEY_700e7=rightalt KEYBOARD_KEY_700e6=rightmeta KEYBOARD_KEY_7006d=compose After that, simply run:\n sudo udevadm hwdb --update \u0026amp;\u0026amp; sudo udevadm trigger ","permalink":"/post/2021-10-29-logitech-mx-keys-mac/","tags":["linux","logitech","keyboard"],"title":"Logitech MX Keys for Mac on Linux"},{"categories":null,"contents":"Believe it or not, Surface tablets have pretty good linux support, except for the webcams in newer models. These are some useful notes to get Ubuntu installed in your surface go, as of Summer 2019.\nInstalling the kernel 1 2 git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface.git ~/linux-surface cp -a ~/linux-surface /media/\u0026lt;your usb\u0026gt; 1 2 3 cp -a /media/\u0026lt;your usb\u0026gt;/linux-surface ~/ cd ~/linux-surface/ sudo sh setup.sh Booting ubuntu first Switch out of Windows S mode.\nBoot into the \u0026ldquo;Command Prompt\u0026rdquo;.\nFrom Windows go to \u0026ldquo;change advanced startup options\u0026rdquo; and select \u0026ldquo;restart now\u0026rdquo;.\nWhen it reboots, choose the \u0026ldquo;Troubleshoot\u0026rdquo; option, then choose the \u0026ldquo;Advanced options\u0026rdquo; option, and finally choose the \u0026ldquo;Command Prompt\u0026rdquo; option.\nAfter the device reboots, login to the command prompt and then you should see a terminal with X:\\windows\\system32\u0026gt;\nAt the prompt, check your UEFI entries:\n1 bcdedit /enum firmware Copy UEFI entry of \u0026ldquo;Windows Boot Manager\u0026rdquo; to create a new entry for Ubuntu: bcdedit /copy {bootmgr} /d \u0026ldquo;Ubuntu\u0026rdquo;\nCopy the printed GUID number including the braces {} using Ctrl+C\nSet file path for the new Ubuntu entry. Replace {guid} with the returned GUID of the previous command (Ctrl+V). bcdedit /set {guid} path \\EFI\\ubuntu\\grubx64.efi\nSet Ubuntu as the first/ entry in the boot sequence. Again replace {guid} with the returned GUID of the copy command.\n1 bcdedit /set {fwbootmgr} displayorder {guid} /addfirst Check your UEFI entries again: bcdedit /enum firmware You should see something like this:\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Firmware Boot Manager --------------------- identifier {fwbootmgr} displayorder {3510232e-f8eb-e811-95ce-9ecab3f9d1c4} {bootmgr} {2148799b-f8eb-e811-95ce-9ecab3f9d1c4} {312e8a67-c2f6-e811-95ce-3c1ab3f9d1de} {312e8a68-c2f6-e811-95ce-3c1ab3f9d1de} timeout 0 Make sure the GUID you copied is the first one listed in displayorder. Then type exit, turn off the PC and turn it back on. After this my surface go is automatically booting to the grub bootloader which lets me choose between Windows and Ubuntu but defaults to Ubuntu after ten seconds.\n","permalink":"/po
