Since a while I am using a refurbed Dell Latitude 5300. I’m pretty happy with it. Just recently I was doing some stuff via SSH on my RaspberryPIs when I noticed that the Dell’s keyboard does not contain the ‘<‘ key. Not a big deal usually – just Linux Shell working is quite uncool without the ‘>’ and the pipe ‘|’ characters.
To me, the easiest way was to install Microsoft Powertoys from the Store or from GitHub. (Hint for german users: set the app language to english)
In Powertoys, select “Input / Output” > “Keyboard Manager” > “Remap a Shortcut” and add three shortcuts:
- “Ctrl (Left) + Y” to “<“
- “Ctrl (Left) + Shift (Left) + Y” to “>”
- “Win (Left) + Y” to “Ctrl (Left) + Alt (Right) + <” — This is for the pipe.
On an english keyboard, you might have to replace ‘y’ with ‘z’.
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