Keyboard buttons event-based or device based?

[aivils at latnet.lv]

Hello,

It is not possible by conventional Xorg.
If You like play with it i wrote tool years ago
http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/files/xke-0.03.tar.bz2

Be aware Xorg use any device of /dev/input
man evdev

Aivils Stoss

Citēju Crypto <crptdngl71 at gmx.net>:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if this is related to xorg, maybe it is related to KDE, Gnome
> etc.
>
> I often connect an external USB keyboard to my notebook for faster typing.
>
> In KDE etc. (i.e. GUI) applications it is often possible to re-assign
> keyboard
> events to particular menu entries of that application so that one gets new
> keyboard shortcuts.
>
> It seems to me that these entries are "event-based" - the application
> receives
> e.g. "CTRL+c" and will copy selected text etc. to clipboard. But can the
> application also tell which device has sent the command? If it does not then
> I
> could attach six USB keyboards to my notebook which all would enter the same
> commands and I would not get any more options for assigning keyboard
> shortcuts.
>
> Instead in my example it would be like "internal notebook keyboard" +
> "CTRL+c"
> or "external keyboard" + "CTRL+c", which I call "device-based". Although in
> both cases I entered the same key sequence I would get more keyboard
> shortcuts
> because in this case the device also would be taken into account.
>
> By using a device-based assignment of shortcuts one could get more
> alternatives for the shortcuts. One could have an external numblock that
> could
> send "open browser", "run office program" etc. whereas the standard keyboard
> sends the numbers 0 to 9 on its numblock. But in both cases only the numblock
> number keys were pressed.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks for any hint and kind regards,
> Crypto.
>
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