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Update 2: Found below in dmesg for a single Fn key press/release (even on released this month Ubuntu 25.10): [ +4.340795] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf8 on isa0060/...
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I want to use my mouse's middle-button in the TTY, so I tried to debug it. When I perform a middle-click, it doesn't show up in evtest /dev/input/eventN. All other actions show up, so I'm in the ...
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I am trying to read a DirectInput Device under Linux. lsusb: Bus 003 Device 006: ID 046d:c219 Logitech, Inc. F710 Gamepad [DirectInput Mode] sudo dmesg: [13919.233231] usb 3-2.2: new full-speed USB ...
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I am using arch with hyprland(omarchy). I am trying to write a program which reads and outputs keys from my keyboard which requires access to /dev/input/event11(my keyboard) and when I run sudo evtest ...
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bit of a strange issue for you. I have an old 2-in-1 laptop tablet thing that works well enough, except the driver for the touchscreen occasionally crashes, leaving it unusable. I have a simple script ...
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on antiX I need a on screen keyboard, I went with "onboard" and installed it. I also have multiple input languages set up in the antiX control center (German, Russian). Onboard seems to ...
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I have a registered function in ZSH that searches file contents under the current path for a match and then captures the resulting filename. This is then bound to a key combination. The keybinding, ...
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If I create a mount namespace with unshare or a more sophisticated tool like Docker, can I emulate an input device using a userspace process on the host? I'm aware of /dev/uinput as a mechanism for ...
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How can I find the file descriptor that a process reads input from? Background I run a Vite (pronounced veet) server when developing in an Alpine container. Currently I login to the container and ...
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I'm trying to set up a kiosk machine. This is a PC with a touchscreen and no physical mouse or keyboard attached during normal operation. Currently I'm working with Debian 12, but I plan to look ...
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I use Ubuntu Linux on both my personal laptop and my school's computers. On my personal laptop, I'm looking to replicate the behavior of the school's computers where the terminal accepts user input ...
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When I press the audo play and audio next keys on my keyboard the keypress goes through to my application, but when I press the audio previous key something is grabbing the keypress and preventing it ...
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Xorg/DE always handles some keyboard/mouse input events rather than the currently focused window, which is useful, but I want to make an exception for a particular app (because reasons). That is, is ...
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I want to do something with user input to use in grep. Like, instead of uin="first\nsecond\n" printf $uin | grep d which outputs second, I want to have the user input it, like read uin ...
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Is there a way to programmatically read, detect or get notified about the actual physical state of a modifier key, without requiring root level access rights? I tried X11, XCB and XKB, but their event ...
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