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I followed the steps on this page but when I run make it gives me this error:

/usr/bin/ld: keycode.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XKeycodeToKeysym'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'XKeycodeToKeysym' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

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TheBlackUnicorn
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This is an Ubuntu thing, works fine without it in Debian Stable. So might effect Mint too.

Add -lX11 in the Makefile to the LIBS line under the LFLAGS line so it should look like this when your done.

For 64bit:

LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lXtst -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread -lX11

For 32bit:

LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu -lXtst -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread -lX11

They changed the way they compiled to be more exact and broke code from what I get. This worked fine with the exact error on 64bit Ubuntu thanks to someone on the web I found. Every time you run the ./config or ./configure it will remake the Makefile and you have to edit it again.

The Keyboard is dead, Long live the Keyboard. :P

user159401
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This looks more like a problem with your X11 library.

Just reinstall X11 library

sudo apt-get autoremove libx11-6

and then

sudo apt-get install libx11-6

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