vanDongen/Gilcher wrote:
On Sunday 31 October 2004 03:33, ClaudiusMaximus wrote:
It seems that it is the case that all of the keyboards are grabbed: I plugged in both keyboards (one normal, one USB) and typing on both showed up in the same terminal window (this is a gterm in GNOME). This was without evdev loaded.
But do you want this?
No!
I had a problem with using a keypress to trigger a loop, because pd also sents it to the currently clicked numberbox f.i. What happended: I just set the tempo to 170 BPM in a numberbox and didn't bother clicking the canvas afterwards. Then I pressed 1 to start the first loop, and behold, the tempo got set to 1 BPM as well, so not much was happening. The focus is visible if you use numberbox2, but not on a "classic"-numberbox/
So using a secondary keyboard, it might be better to disable it as an X-windows ikeyboard-device, and use the hid-object to parse the input. That way you won't get these nasty surprises.
That's exactly what I want to do and why I want to do it, but I don't know how!
The links that CK provided earlier in this thread seemed to be about dual-head systems (with multiple Linux consoles each with their own keyboard) and require kernel and X-server patches, whereas what I want seems to be a lot simpler on the surface, just requires stopping the X-server from recognising the USB keyboard as an input device.
ciao
Gerard