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Xorg: Two keyboards with different keyboard layout.
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| # Use xinput to find your keyboards. | |
| $ xinput | |
| ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] | |
| ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] | |
| ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)] | |
| ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=12 [slave pointer (2)] | |
| ⎜ ↳ Logitech Performance MX id=14 [slave pointer (2)] | |
| ⎜ ↳ E-Signal USB Gaming Keyboard id=16 [slave pointer (2)] | |
| ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] | |
| ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ Integrated Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ Sennheiser Sennheiser 3D G4ME1 id=15 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| ↳ E-Signal USB Gaming Keyboard id=17 [slave keyboard (3)] | |
| # My keyboards are id 10 (laptop integrated) and id 17 (external keyboard). | |
| # Now, set my external keyboard to be Swedish layout, and my internal to Dvorak: | |
| $ setxkbmap -device 17 se | |
| $ setxkbmap -device 10 dvorak | |
| # Done! |
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Hi, I'd like to make the space key of the second keyboard output hyper or some other key. Does somebody know how do do that?