On Mon, 26 Jul 2021, Dominique Michel wrote: > Le Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:15:08 +0100 (BST), > Mark Hills <m...@xwax.org> a écrit : > > > My keyboard and mouse are on a USB hub, powered on/off separately. > > I'm tired of having to manually re-run a script every time I return > > to work. > > > > Searching gives suggestions to add scripts to Linux udev; that seems > > totally the wrong layer to me -- it can only be configured by root, > > runs whether X is running or not, and I'd somehow need to delegate > > access to the running X session. I don't run dbus here either. This > > is on simple Slackware/Alpine Linux system. > > I would say than the best way is to let X to manage the mouse and the > pointer. As example, I have nothing special for the USB mouse, it just > work, and for the keyboard I have a file > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf > > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall" > MatchIsKeyboard "on" > MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" > Driver "evdev" > Option "XkbLayout" "ch" > Option "XkbVariant" "fr" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > EndSection
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm reluctant to push these to system settings, as they're personal onces I should be able to move around in my $HOME folder (and in my previous employer I could not even have adjusted this configuration) -- but I can see what you are saying. I suppose I'd need to work out the equivalent of xmodmap in these Xkb* settings, as well as the other settings: xmodmap ~/.xmodmap # custom layout xset r rate 300 100 # keyboard repeat xset m 0.4 # mouse acceleration xsetwacom --set "Wacom One by Wacom M Pen stylus" MapToOutput DisplayPort-0 The X server could really be more helpful here: "xset r" is presented as a global setting, yet it sets the current keyboards, not newly added ones. Same for "xset m" with mice. What do fvwm users do if they have a custom keyboard layout? -- Mark
