[LAU] second qwerty

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Sun Nov 16 22:19:34 EST 2008


Justin Smith wrote:
>
> AFAIK here is no need to fool X, or modify your kernel. Tell X
> precisely which device to use for keyboard input (the devices are in
> the /dev/input/ directory, I recommend using the symlinks in
> /dev/input/by-id/), and it will happily ignore all other keyboards.
> After that, you just need to read the hid device created by the kernel
> for that keyboard - if PD already has this coded, all the easier, but
> the interface is very easy to use (I did something very similar, with
> 8 mice connected to the computer, all but 1 ignored by X11 -- it was a
> weekend hack, more or less, to make it work).
That's really interesting. Did you have multiple mice controlling 
different programs?



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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.






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