Release 2.44

  • 9th Feb 2025
  • 2 min read

Table of Contents

xkeyboard-config 2.44 was released on 2025-02-09.

Models

Fixes

  • Fixed rules for vendor-specific layouts, in particular for Sun and Apple Aluminium keyboards. (#112)
  • Apple: swap <TLDE> and <LSGT> keysyms for Russian layout.

Layouts

Breaking changes

  • Breton: Fixed capitalization of “c’h” and “ch” multigraphs using CapsLock, as well as Greek letters. A few Greeks letters were moved to more intuitive places. (#480.breton)

New

  • Added Noted layout de(noted) for German.

    Contributed by Benjamin Drung (!681)

Options

Breaking changes

  • Disabled "Alt and Meta are on Alt" by default. The old behavior can be restored by enabling the altwin:meta_alt option. (#488)

Miscellaneous

New

  • inet: Added XF86Assistant as default mapping to the Super + Shift + F23 keyboard combo, aka the "Copilot Key".

  • inet: Added mapping to the following new keysyms:

    • XF86RefreshRateToggle
    • XF86Accessibility
    • XF86DoNotDisturb

    Relevant upstream merge request: xorgproto-91.

Fixes

  • Fixed missing virtual modifiers declarations, in order to allow all sections to be used in isolation.