Bug#623796: marked as done (keyboard-configuration should be able to handle multiple keyboards configuration)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #623796,
regarding keyboard-configuration should be able to handle multiple keyboards configuration
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Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.73
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
keyboard-configuration isn't currently able to handle multiple keyboards configuration. If two or more keyboards are present, the layout is the same for all of them.
It will be a great feature to declare a per keyboard layout. For example, an azerty keyboard will send fr keymap and a qwerty one will send us keymap, both at the same time, without the need to switch. In fact, it will be the behavior of what xorg did.
Do you think it's useful and possible ?
Thanks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38.2-moss (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy
keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.
keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.73 Linux specific part of console-set
ii debconf 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy
ii xkb-data 2.1-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii kbd 1.15.2-3 Linux console font and keytable ut
Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests:
ii console-setup 1.73 console font and keymap setup prog
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to:
ii console-common 0.7.85 basic infrastructure for text cons
ii console-data 2:1.10-9 keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
pn console-tools <none> (no description available)
ii kbd 1.15.2-3 Linux console font and keytable ut
-- debconf information excluded
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:04:30AM +0200, Anthony Bourguignon wrote:
>
> keyboard-configuration isn't currently able to handle multiple
> keyboards configuration. If two or more keyboards are present, the
> layout is the same for all of them.
>
> It will be a great feature to declare a per keyboard layout. For
> example, an azerty keyboard will send fr keymap and a qwerty one will
> send us keymap, both at the same time, without the need to switch. In
> fact, it will be the behavior of what xorg did.
>
> Do you think it's useful and possible ?
The current Linux kernels provide a common interface for all keyboards.
Because of this the programs (including X Window) see only one keyboard.
The kernel, however, provides also access to the separate physical
devices, for example /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd
and /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.1-usb-0:1:1.0-event-kbd.
As far as I know it is not possible to use simultaneously two keyboars
with two different layouts on the text Linux console due to limitations
of the Linux console driver.
I am not sure about X Window. In principle it is possible to describe
two keyboards in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but it seems it is not possible to
specify two different layouts for the keyboards. See the following bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5671
I am closing this bug not because it is not a valid one, but rather
because it doesn't belong to keyboard-configuration. I'd suggest you
add a comment to the mentioned bug at freedesktop.org. It seems the
developers do not fully understand what was actually requested - not a
layout switcher, nor a support for keyboards with different hardware
model, but support for two keyboards with two different layouts.
Anton Zinoviev
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