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  • Two keyboards at one X server with different keyboard layouts

    From Steve Keller@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 20 08:03:55 2016
    I can attach two keyboards (e.g. USB) to an X server and both will
    send key presses to the X server.

    But is it possible to configure different keyboard layouts for each
    keyboard? With xmodmap I can specify "-display" but it seems there is
    no way to have multiple keymaps for multiple keyboards.

    Steve

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  • From Lucas Levrel@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 20 13:00:47 2016
    Le 20 septembre 2016, Steve Keller a écrit :

    I can attach two keyboards (e.g. USB) to an X server and both will
    send key presses to the X server.

    But is it possible to configure different keyboard layouts for each
    keyboard? With xmodmap I can specify "-display" but it seems there is
    no way to have multiple keymaps for multiple keyboards.

    With xkbcomp you can specify a device ID with switch -i. You get these IDs
    from "xinput list". I never tried to do this, though.

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