Detecting keyboard layout
Arc Riley
arcriley at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 14:01:09 EST 2007
If USB, you could query the USB ID or check which type via HID parameters.
PS/2, I don't think you can.
On Nov 30, 2007 1:43 PM, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net>
wrote:
>
> Anybody know if it's possible to query a keyboard directly to learn its
> layout? I believe it isn't, but a cow-orker asked because he wants to
> diddle the X modmap in various internationalization-dependent (i18n !)
> ways based on which type of keyboard is attached, without consulting a
> config file and without asking the user.
>
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