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Re: How to have separate kbd layouts per usb-keyboards?



On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:33:23PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Vi, 29 apr 11, 19:42:30, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> > 
> >   so i installed for our media server 2 keyboards, one german, the other
> >   french.... and now i am searching how to configure the machine to
> >   allways assume german keyboard layout coming from a certain usb
> >   device, and french from another... and am stuck since i didn't even
> >   manage to get the beginning of a solution.....
> 
> One way would be to run two instances of X, each with the respective 
> keyboard/layout combination. Not sure if this is feasible in your 
> situation though.

This is really a deficiency in the kernel input layer--it should be possible
to have a separate keymap for each input device, so that the multiplexed
input stream has the correct characters from each keyboard.  Solutions
involving switching keymaps and multiple X servers is really just working
around this core defect.


Regards,
Roger

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