remapping the Escape key to the F9 key

[notebook]

On 2021/10/25 7:20, Rick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the Function keys on the left side of my keyboard because I have difficulty reaching above the numbers row. Unfortunately, my Escape key is way up there, so I swap it with F9 which is the at the bottom left of my keyboard using xmodmap:
> 
> 
>     : xmodmap -pk | grep 'F9\|Esc'
>           9      0xff1b (Escape) 0x0000 (NoSymbol)   0xff1b (Escape)
>          75      0xffc6 (F9) 0xffc6 (F9) 0xffc6 (F9) 0xffc6 (F9) 0xffc6 (F9) 0xffc6 (F9) 0x1008fe09 (XF86Switch_VT_9)
> 
>     : xmodmap -e "keycode 75 = Escape"
>     : xmodmap -e "keycode 9 = F9"
> 
>     : xmodmap -pk | grep 'F9\|Esc'
>           9      0xffc6 (F9) 0x0000 (NoSymbol)   0xffc6 (F9)
>          75      0xff1b (Escape) 0x0000 (NoSymbol)   0xff1b (Escape)
>     :
> 
> This work in every native application I use except the Chrome browner where I still have to press the Escape key.
> 
> Does anybody know why this doesn't remap and how I can remap it for Chrome?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> rick
> 
> 

This does not answer your question, but is rather some more information:
AFAIK, VS Code (build on top of the chrome engine(?)) had a similar problem a while ago and they fixed it. If I remember correctly, the behavior comes from the engine (?) that Chrome uses.
I.e. I think the problem is not local to Chrome, but to their engine ( by "engine" I mean that thing all Electron apps share)

Regards
Chris