Separate keymap for every input device
Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Apr 29 21:52:40 PDT 2007
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:31:30AM -0400, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
> I thought, in the xorg-server-1.3 one can define separate keymaps for each
> input device.
> My input driver initializes the keyboard struct like this:
>
> XkbSetRulesDflts(__XKBDEFRULES__, "pc104", "us", NULL, NULL);
> XkbInitKeyboardDeviceStruct (device, &xkbnames, &keySyms, modMap, NULL, NULL);
>
> and generates key events with:
> xf86PostKeyboardEvent(dev, scancode, pressed);
>
>
> keySyms points to my keymap for the scancodes of the device. When I don't have
> a keyboard defined in the xorg.conf, this keymap is used fine, but if there
> is a keyboard defined, the scancodes of my own driver are used with the
> keymap of the keyboard.
Rather than manually building a keysym map, you're much better off
writing an XKB layout for your device. It's not too hard, promise.
> Is this a bug? Or is it just not possible? How am I supposed to know the
> scancodes to generate for certain keys? Can I get the current keymap from
> X.Org? How can I generate a "XK_0" from my device drivers point of view?
>
> This would prevent me from attaching two keyboards with different mappings
> (like German and US), right?
Right now, that is indeed the case. This is fixed in 1.4 (the master
branch in git).
Cheers,
Daniel
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