Nicolas George (12020-02-19):

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Hi.

I am replying to my own mail of three years ago where I explained how to configure X11 to set different layouts on different keyboards and handle hot-plugging without root privileges. Since a standard tool did not
exist yet, I had attached a small program of mine to do it.

I have seen this code reproduced on the web, so at least somebody is
using it. Good.

Then it might interest you that I have made an extended version of it
and published it:

https://gitlab.com/Cigaes/xi2bind

It has the ability to run a command when a device is plugged or
unplugged, and now it allows to define keyboard shortcuts attached to
only a specific keyboard.

(By the way, do you know a mailing list or website dedicated to
announcing initial releases of small projects like that?)

Regards,

--
Nicolas George

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Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> writes:

Nicolas George (12020-02-19):

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Hi.

I am replying to my own mail of three years ago where I explained how to configure X11 to set different layouts on different keyboards and handle hot-plugging without root privileges. Since a standard tool did not
exist yet, I had attached a small program of mine to do it.

Wow. It's exactly what I need since I've started to use a USB switch in
my home office. Assuming it works for me of course. I've thought about
writing a udev rule but haven't gotten around to it.

I've tried to run xmodmap after the keyboard is hot plugged (via telling
the USB switch to switch) but it's like the xmodmap doesn't take even
after I added a delay. Although it seems it worked sometimes. Maybe the
issue is I've tried to run xmodmap from the other computer over ssh, I
don't know.

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Anssi Saari (12023-01-09):

Wow. It's exactly what I need since I've started to use a USB switch in
my home office. Assuming it works for me of course. I've thought about writing a udev rule but haven't gotten around to it.

I hope the program I wrote can help you.

I've tried to run xmodmap after the keyboard is hot plugged (via telling
the USB switch to switch) but it's like the xmodmap doesn't take even
after I added a delay. Although it seems it worked sometimes. Maybe the
issue is I've tried to run xmodmap from the other computer over ssh, I
don't know.

Does the xmodmap effect stay if you run it manually after the keyboard
is hot-plugged?

If so, then you probably already something watching for new devices and applying a layout. Maybe your desktop manager, they have a habit of
ruining simple things.

If not, then you need to get it to work reliably before you can consider automating it.

Regards,

--
Nicolas George

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Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> writes:

Does the xmodmap effect stay if you run it manually after the keyboard
is hot-plugged?

Yes. I don't have a desktop environment in use on my desktop computer
either so this should work for me.

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Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> writes:

Nicolas George (12020-02-19):

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Hi.

I am replying to my own mail of three years ago where I explained how to configure X11 to set different layouts on different keyboards and handle hot-plugging without root privileges. Since a standard tool did not
exist yet, I had attached a small program of mine to do it.

I have seen this code reproduced on the web, so at least somebody is
using it. Good.

Then it might interest you that I have made an extended version of it
and published it:

https://gitlab.com/Cigaes/xi2bind

I finally gave xi2bind a try, using the hierarchy option to do something
(run xmodmap) when a keyboard is plugged in. Or in my case, I have a USB
switch which connects or disconnects a USB hub with my mouse and
keyboard connected to the hub.

It works fine but usage was a little baffling and it doesn't help the
example on how to use the hierarchy command doesn't work due to wrong
quoting.

With some work I think I've worked out which event when the keyboard is
plugged in I should use to run xmodmap, out of the six that happen when
my keyboard is plugged in. With the mouse and hub the total number of
events is actually 16!

For sure it doesn't really matter if xmodmap runs sixteen or six times
or only once but it feels right.

So for adding my extra keys to my quite normal US layout keyboard this
works fine. Unfortunately something weird happens with the modifier keys
and my extra keys working depend on setting Alt_R to mode_switch and
that's not something I can automate currently. Nothing to do with
xi2bind though.

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