On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:35:07AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > Hello folks, > > I often use my Thinkpad with an external keyboard. When I plug in > the keyboard, it is initialised according to HAL with standard > symbols. While I load a custom keymap from Xsession [0] and also > call `xset r rate …` there, these settings do not take effect once > I plug in the external keyboard — while the internal keyboard works > exactly according to my keymap and rate settings, the external one > uses defaults for both, probably because xset/xkbcomp only affect > existing devices, not the defaults. > > 0. http://madduck.net/docs/extending-xkb > > I seek a way to address this and have a few questions. I would > greatly appreciate all kinds of feedback. > > 1. I would prefer not to install my custom keymaps into /usr/lib, as > that area of the filesystem is vendor-domain. However, I have not > found a way to tell Xorg to look in other places too for xkb > files. > > Is it possible to extend the XKEYBOARD search path, such that > I could reference custom symbol tables from HAL's > input.xkb.options property of a keyboard?
xkbcomp supports -I, but the xserver doesn't provide an option to set a custom include path. so your best bet is to run xkbcomp at runtime for xkb files outside the default paths. > 2. Is it possible to initialise delay and repeat rate of external > keyboards to custom values (I run `xset r rate 255 47`)? xset only works on core protocol requests. the core protocol however doesn't provide device specifiers and to change the keyboard repeat rate you'd have to use an xkb-aware tool. if there is one, I don't know, never needed that. > 3. If (1) or (2) are not possible, then what else could I do? Is > there a way to subscribe to Xorg in such a way that it informs me > (or calls back) upon configuration of a new input device, such > that I can relaod the keymap with xkbcomp and reset the > delay/rate with xset? DevicePresence are sent for each device added, removed, enabled and disabled. For servers 1.7 and later, an XIDeviceHierarchChanged event is sent as well. > 4. After I plugged in the external keyboard, I have two keyboards. > While the internal one uses my custom keymap and rate/delay > settings, the external one has defaults. This makes me think that > Xorg keeps these settings per-device. However, neither xset nor > xkbcomp seem to allow me to specify a "target device", so that > I do not seem to be able to configure just one device, but always > have to configure all of them. Am I overlooking something? xkbcomp -i <device id>, as I said xset doesn't let you do that. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
