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Thanks for the ideas everyone. Appreciate it.
I'll tinker with it when the two USB keypads come in.

Regards,
-Montana


On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote:
On 2025-04-16 Adam Thompson wrote:
> You might be able to do something at the evdev level, which exists
> below Wayland.  (Surprisingly good overview
> at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evdev)
>
> I haven’t tested it, but input-remapper, linked from Input remap
> utilities -
> ArchWiki<https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_remap_utilities>
> [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_remap_utilities] looks like what you want.

That arch page is really handy.  So for sure you can do your #2
requirement, but I'm still not sold that these can do #1.

However, it must be possible, as how would you map different keys to 2
different joysticks (for example) if you can't differentiate between
input devices.  I'm probably fretting over nothing and these programs
will make life easy.

And a GUI too!  If it works, what luxury!

What I'm happiest to see is that evdev underpins wayland too!  I have
quite a few bugs & mods in the evdev code base over the years to support
my circa 2000 IBM ball mouse.  It would be a shame to have to repeat all
of that work just for wayland.
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