[BRLTTY] Binding a keyboard to a virtual console?

Mario Lang mlang at blind.guru
Sun Sep 26 08:48:39 EDT 2021


Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Mario Lang, le ven. 24 sept. 2021 09:47:58 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Does anyone know if there is a way to bind a specific input device to a
>> virtual console?
>
> Apparently, drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c still doesn't do any input mixing.

Looks like userspace is solving this by grabbing an input device.
Since we already tunnel all the keyboards through BRLTTY anyway, could
we perhaps do key translation for one of them, and insert the resulting
keys directly to the VT the lx screen driver is bound to?

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