On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:33:23PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 29 apr 11, 19:42:30, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > > so i installed for our media server 2 keyboards, one german, the other > > french.... and now i am searching how to configure the machine to > > allways assume german keyboard layout coming from a certain usb > > device, and french from another... and am stuck since i didn't even > > manage to get the beginning of a solution..... > > One way would be to run two instances of X, each with the respective > keyboard/layout combination. Not sure if this is feasible in your > situation though.
This is really a deficiency in the kernel input layer--it should be possible to have a separate keymap for each input device, so that the multiplexed input stream has the correct characters from each keyboard. Solutions involving switching keymaps and multiple X servers is really just working around this core defect. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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