On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
I have a USB numeric keypad lying about, and would like to use its keys as special shortcuts (like, its Num-6 could simulate XF86AudioNext...). How do I tell its key strokes apart from those of the main keyboard? Is this done at X level? Would the helpful people on this list provide some pointers, or set me started?
You'll need to use the XInput extension (x11-xinput package), as X11 core only understands a single keyboard so by default all system keyboards are treated identically and their events mixed into a single event stream. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net