Disable Internal Laptop Keyboard When External Keyboard Is Plugged In On Linux
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Do you also find yourself wanting to use your custom keyboard while travelling with your Linux laptop? Without triggering keypresses through the built-in keyboard underneath of course! I’ll first show you how to disable the built-in laptop keyboard with a bash script. And then automatically disable the laptop keyboard when, and only when, your custom keyboard is plugged in, and enable it again when your custom keyboard is unplugged.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/49130941

How to disable Linux laptop keyboard when custom keyboard is plugged in

How are you guys doing this? Are you using Sway or Hyprland for this? Anyone else using udev already?

  • fhoekstra@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    My ASUS laptop special buttons above the normal keyboard are registered as a separate device to the kernel, so this does not impact them. They are far enough out of the way to not get pressed by my ergo split though.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Excellent! Hadn’t really thought that one keyboard can be multiple devices, but then again, those are also keyboard-touchpad combos, should have expected something like that.