multiple keyboards with different bindings

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:51:47AM -0700, Peter Sanford wrote:
> Ahh. Under GDM I have the problem, but with startx the two keyboards
> are configured correctly. I guess I'll take this issue over to the
> fine GDM folks.

CC-ing xorg list, so the solution is public.

Cheers,
  Peter
 
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 06:56:09PM -0700, Peter Sanford wrote:
> >> I went ahead and changed the config like you suggested (separate
> >> xorg.conf.d files using MatchUSBID). I have the same problem as
> >> before: which ever config is applied second get applied to both
> >> keyboards (overriding the first setting). I confirmed this by
> >> testing with a different keyboard that caused the configuration to
> >> be applied in the opposite order from my first test.
> >>
> >> Does this mean that the XkbOptions are being applied to the virtual
> >> core keyboard instead of the slave keyboards?
> >>
> >> Here is the log output:
> >>
> >> [   990.609] (**) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:
> >> Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
> >> [   990.609] (**) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:
> >> Applying InputClass "Apple Keyboards"
> >> [   990.609] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Apple Inc. Apple
> >> Internal Keyboard / Trackpad'
> >> [   990.609] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
> >> [   990.609] (**) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:
> >> always reports core events
> >> [   990.609] (**) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:
> >> Device: "/dev/input/event8"
> >> [   990.610] (--) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: Found keys
> >> [   990.610] (II) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad:
> >> Configuring as keyboard
> >> [   990.610] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb4/4-3/4-3:1.0/input/input8/event8"
> >> [   990.610] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Apple Inc.
> >> Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad" (type: KEYBOARD)
> >> [   990.610] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
> >> [   990.610] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
> >> [   990.610] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
> >> [   990.610] (**) Option "xkb_options" "altwin:swap_lalt_lwin,caps:super"
> >> ...
> >> [   990.753] (**) KINESIS FREESTYLE KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle:
> >> Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
> >> [   990.753] (**) KINESIS FREESTYLE KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle:
> >> Applying InputClass "Keyboard Catch All"
> >> [   990.753] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'KINESIS FREESTYLE
> >> KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle'
> >> [   990.753] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
> >> [   990.753] (**) KINESIS FREESTYLE KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle:
> >> always reports core events
> >> [   990.753] (**) KINESIS FREESTYLE KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle:
> >> Device: "/dev/input/event9"
> >> [   990.754] (--) KINESIS FREESTYLE KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle:
> >> Found keys
> >> [   990.754] (II) KINESIS FREESTYLE KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle:
> >> Configuring as keyboard
> >> [   990.754] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-4/2-4.2/2-4.2:1.0/input/input9/event9"
> >> [   990.754] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "KINESIS
> >> FREESTYLE KB700 KB700 Kinesis Freestyle" (type: KEYBOARD)
> >> [   990.754] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
> >> [   990.754] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
> >> [   990.754] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
> >> [   990.754] (**) Option "xkb_options" "caps:super,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> >>
> >> You can see in the log that the apple keyboard got the "Apple
> >> Keyboards" input class and the kinesis keyboard got the "Keyboard
> >> Catch All" class. But when I actually use the keyboards both act as
> >> if they are using the "Keyboard Catch All" class.
> >
> > is this on a plain X server or with a desktop environment running? if so,
> > does the DE overwrite the keyboard settings?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Peter
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