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Share keyboard over network as separate device?

Sort of like a poor man's keyboard sharing. I've tried using Synergy and x2x but couldn't get them to work, so I decided to simplify things and use xdotool to generate the events.

Is there any way to get the keysyms (such as Control_L, F4, Shift_R) of keystrokes so they can be passed on to xdotool?

I've looked at xev but it generates so much information and I have no idea how to extract the info I need (which key was pressed, whether it is being held down, etc.) more or less in real time.

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  • What do you want to do? ssh to two computers, type once and get the result on both computers? – Nils Sep 01 '12 at 20:05
  • More like controlling one computer with the other's keyboard. I tried Synergy, but couldn't get it to work. – Splooshie123 Sep 02 '12 at 01:25

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I'm not sure I understand your question, but

xinput test <id>

Prints the events generated by input device <id> (see xinput list to figure out ids)

xev | sed -n '/^KeyPress/{n;n;s/.*, \(.*\)).*/\1/p;}'

will return the keysym pressed in the xev window.

xmodmap -pk

will print mappings between keycodes and keysyms.

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