docs(niri): find a keysym without a tool that is not installed
`key-bindings-syntax.md` told you to run `wev` and read `sym: XXXX` — a placeholder nobody fills in, for a tool that is not on the machine: `command -v wev` is empty, `pacman -Ss --sync wev` is empty on CachyOS, and the AUR carries it as `wev-git`. The bind token is an XKB keysym, and the complete list is already on every box that links libxkbcommon, so the page now leads with the grep against `/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-keysyms.h` (run here: `a A Escape Left Return Tab`), and keeps `wev` as the "press the key and see" option with its real package name and where to get it. `screenshots.md` line 35 read `(FIXME upstream).`, which scans as unfinished work in a page that is finished: the defect is upstream's, tracked in the two issue links six lines below. Reworded to say that. Refs #64
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## Finding Key Names
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Use [`wev`](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev) to find XKB key names:
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Niri binds by XKB **keysym name**, and the authoritative list is already on the box — no
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tool needed:
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```bash
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wev
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# Then press the key you want to bind — look at `sym: XXXX` in output
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grep -oE 'XKB_KEY_[A-Za-z0-9_]+' /usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-keysyms.h \
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| sed 's/^XKB_KEY_//' | grep -ixE 'a|return|left|tab|escape'
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```
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To read the keysym off a key you actually press, use
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[`wev`](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev), the Wayland equivalent of `xev`. It is NOT in the
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enabled repositories — checked 2026-10-21, `pacman -Ss --sync wev` returns nothing — and the
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AUR builds it as `wev-git` (`yay -S wev-git`; `aur/wev-git 1.1.0.r1.gb09b664-1`).
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Shifted keys require Shift + the unshifted key (for example, `Mod+Shift+Comma` for `<` on US QWERTY).
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## Constraints
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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Noctalia settings lives on `Mod+Shift+O` (moved off Mod+Shift+S).
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- Portal chain: flameshot 14 → `xdg-desktop-portal-gnome` → niri D-Bus
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API → `screenshot_all_outputs` → `ensure!(outputs.len() == 1)`
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(FIXME upstream).
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(an upstream defect, still unfixed — issue links below).
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- `flameshot full` on 2 outputs: each press emits **3 refusals**
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(composited screen + per-output) — `WARN niri::niri: error taking a
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screenshot: Condition failed: outputs.len() == 1 (2 vs 1)` in
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