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 <[email protected]>: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
