[SomeHacker44]

Also the Copilot button/key is useless. It cannot be remapped to anything in Ubuntu because it sends a sequence of multiple keycodes instead if a single keycode for down and then up. You cannot remap it to a useful modifier or anything! What a waste of keyboard real estate.

[amluto]

If you want a small adventure, you could see which HID device those keystrokes show up on, and they might be remappable courtesy of showing up on a HID device for that specific button. Failing that, they most likely come from either ACPI AML code or from the embedded controller (EC). If the former, it’s not that hard to patch the AML code, and maybe Copilot could do it for you (you use standard open source tooling to disassemble the AML blob, which the kernel will happily give you, and then you make a patched version and load it). If the latter, you could see if anyone has made progress toward finding a less silly way to configure the EC.

(The EC is a little microcontroller programmed by the OEM that does things like handling weird button presses.)

There are also reports of people having decent results using keyd to remap the synthetic keystrokes from the copilot button.

(The sheer number of times Microsoft has created totally different specs for how OEMs should implement different weird buttons is absurd.)