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Easy Second Keyboard support in Linux (With layers!)
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Run command without root privilege. #24

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Good evening, I was wondering if it was possible to access to the second keyboard without root privilege ? I mean, if I do not launch keebie.py as root, it just do not work because it does not have access to the keyboard. Is there something to do I did not ? Thank you. 2021-07-11_18-06

daisyUniverse commented 3 years ago

You need to give your user permission to access the device file, this can be acomplished by doing sudo chmod a+rw /dev/input/by-id/[my-device-name] as specified in the readme

ghost commented 3 years ago

Oh yeah indeed, sorry i did not see. Thank you

Michael-E-B commented 3 years ago

You can also add youself to the input group with usermod -a -G input yourusername; this doesn't have a good track record, but it has worked for me once (on my current install).

daisyUniverse commented 3 years ago

Yeah, the main problem with this method is that not every distro creates an input group, ubuntu and I think fedora do it, but arch linux doesn't, so it's not a super reliable solution

Michael-E-B commented 3 years ago

Even on Ubuntu it's not reliable, I've installed Keebie on three (I think) different copies of Ubuntu and it only worked once; same computer, same keyboard, and I think mostly the same version of Ubuntu. But I think it's worth a shot as it's very convenient.