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?

  • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I have never plugged a keyboard into my Linux laptop, but it does have a function key to turn the keyboard off. So did my last one. I use a windows laptop for work and that keyboard does not turn off when an external keyboard is plugged in FWIW.

    • fhoekstra@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      My laptop didn’t have a key for that, so I ended up gluing together this universal Linux solution.