Thanks for taking the time to respond! also sprach Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> [2010.01.08.1608 +1300]: > 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.
This is what I do right now, but the question of "runtime" is what bothers me: what is "runtime" when you plug a USB keyboard into an existing X session? > > 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. Okay, but to listen/react to those, I need to write a daemon using select(), right? > > 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. I couldn't figure out what <device id> is supposed to be. Thanks again, -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ Escape Meta Alt Control Shift spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
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