evdev and multiple keyboards

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Mon Dec 1 11:45:16 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:01:32PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:

>  Apart from that, evdev keyboards seem to work fine, only 3 remappings
> seem to be necessary. For laptop keyboard:
> Cancel -> XF86AudioStop

That probably needs to be filed against hal-info, along with the output 
of the lshal command.

> For Logitech Alto Cordless:
> XF86HomePage -> XF86WWW
> XF86Tools -> XF86Media
> Is the above submittable, and if so, where can I submit that? My Gnome
> setting is evdev-managed keyboard.

USB devices output standardised keycodes, so if these are incorrect it 
implies that the evdev map in xkb is wrong. I'd file against 
xkeyboard-config.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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