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today's fun cursed keyboard fact: xkb (the thing both X11 and Wayland use for keyboard input) defines keys called XF86Calculator and XF86Calculater

they are distinct keysyms and you can bind them to different things

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SpaceLifeForm
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Does this add up?

Are they equivalent like symlinks, or do they function differently?

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SpaceLifeForm
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Hence, my questions. If they do not function equivalently, then I would be concerned about an attack vector.
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emily, blinkenlight witch
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@SpaceLifeForm I can't imagine how. If you have enough access to a machine to add Calculater to a custom keymap (it's not in any of the keymaps shipped with xkb) and bind it to do arbitrary evil thing (it won't have a default binding in any desktop or application because nobody has ever intentionally used it), surely you can just, like, add `do-evil-thing.sh` as an autorun entry instead?
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