External keypad macro programming

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

M.R.P. zensky via ubuntu-users wrote:

>Hello I have a secondary keypad that I want asian macros to next to
>me standard keyboard. When I type xinput I get the name of the
>keypad and the following. Genovation inc Controller ide=18 [slave
>keyboard (3)] Genovzation inc Controller ide=20 [slave keyboard (3)]
>
>Can anyone tell me how I assign the keypad keys macros? What tool
>should I use?

It looks like xev and xmodmap would be the tools you'd want to use.
The xev program would give you the keycodes and actions that each key
performs and xmodmap would let you reassign them:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/296155/how-can-i-remap-keyboard-keys

As an alternative, or in addition, I thought I'd add in a mention of
AutoKey as a program that you might also like to explore. It's a
daemon that runs in the background and, among other things, can do
on-the-fly text replacements, either automatically as you're typing
or when pressing the specified key or key-combination.

One of the things I use AutoKey for is to convert the two-letter
representations of German Umlauts that I type with my American
keyboard into case-appropriate German Umlaut characters for me as I'm
typing them. It prevents wear and tear on my hands (Umlauts are
rather prolific in German) and makes it so I only need the one
keyboard. And, as you can imagine, it has countless other uses
because it's user-configurable and designed to be something you can
build upon.

-- 
Little Girl

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