Keyloom

Your keyboard, the way you want it.

Keyloom is a visual keyboard customization app for Linux. Click a key, choose what it should do, and it takes effect right away.

Install Keyloom →

Simple things first. Power when you want it.

Remap a key in two clicks. When you need more, the same keyboard handles layers, per-application keys, and shortcuts.

Different keys in different apps

A key can do one thing in one application and stay normal everywhere else. Here Caps Lock becomes Escape in Visual Studio Code.

Test your keyboard

Keys light up as you press them, and you see what each one sends. Keyloom works out your keyboard's size and layout for you.

And more

• Tap and hold: Escape when tapped, Control when held.
• Layers: hold Caps Lock and H/J/K/L become arrow keys, while every other key keeps working normally.
• Shortcuts: turn one chord into another, so Super+C sends the terminal's Ctrl+Shift+C.
• Profiles: separate setups for work, gaming, or Mac-style controls, and one click pauses remapping when you want your original keys back.
• Per-keyboard setups: customize your laptop and external keyboards independently.
• Unusual keys too: media, brightness, and Apple's Mission Control and Launchpad keys.

Install Keyloom

Add the repository for your distribution once, and Keyloom updates with the rest of your system.

Debian

Debian 13 (trixie)

curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/Debian_13/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/BlakeGardner:/Keyloom/Debian_13/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install keyloom

Debian testing (forky)

curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/Debian_Testing/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/BlakeGardner:/Keyloom/Debian_Testing/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install keyloom

Debian unstable (sid)

curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/Debian_Unstable/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/BlakeGardner:/Keyloom/Debian_Unstable/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install keyloom

Ubuntu / Pop!_OS

Ubuntu 24.04 or Pop!_OS 24.04

curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/xUbuntu_24.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/BlakeGardner:/Keyloom/xUbuntu_24.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install keyloom

Ubuntu 25.10

curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/xUbuntu_25.10/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/BlakeGardner:/Keyloom/xUbuntu_25.10/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install keyloom

Ubuntu 26.04

curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/xUbuntu_26.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/home_BlakeGardner_Keyloom.gpg] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/BlakeGardner:/Keyloom/xUbuntu_26.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install keyloom

Fedora

Fedora 43

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/Fedora_43/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.repo
sudo dnf install keyloom

Fedora 44

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/Fedora_44/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.repo
sudo dnf install keyloom

Fedora Rawhide

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom/Fedora_Rawhide/home:BlakeGardner:Keyloom.repo
sudo dnf install keyloom

Arch-based distributions (Omarchy, CachyOS, Manjaro)

Arch Linux and derivatives

Keyloom is not on the AUR yet. Until it is, every release carries an Arch package for x86_64; download the .pkg.tar.zst and install it:

sudo pacman -U ~/Downloads/keyloom-*-x86_64_arch.pkg.tar.zst

Updates are not automatic: fetch the new file when a release comes out.

Prefer to build from source, or on ARM? The PKGBUILD lives in this repository. In an empty directory, with base-devel installed:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlakeGardner/Keyloom/main/packaging/arch/PKGBUILD
makepkg -si

This builds the latest release from source, which takes a few minutes.

Prefer a one-off download? Every release has a .deb and an .rpm for 64-bit Intel/AMD and ARM, and an Arch package for 64-bit Intel/AMD.

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