Can't choose default joystick device to inject into dosbox

[sabudum]

Are you using the latest Dosbox-Staging Version?

• I have checked releases and am using the latest release.

Different version than latest?

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What Operating System are you using?

Linux x86_64

If Other OS, please describe

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When using multiple joysticks on the same machine, it's impossible to choose which one will be injected into dosbox, only the first one is injected, this makes it impossible to use virtual controllers generated by programs such as input-remapper, MoltenGamepad or similar.

Describe the solution you'd like

An option to set the device to be used, it could be a .conf line with the path to the device.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Couldn't find any alternative.

Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

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Code of Conduct & Contributing Guidelines

• Yes, I agree.

[johnnovak]

@weirddan455 @interloper98 Maybe adding a config option for this would be reasonable? I'm thinking of allowing the user to specify a substring of the controller's reported name, then we can do a substring search and use the first match (because numeric IDs can change when unplugging controllers; we use the same name matching mechanism to search for mididevice as you can unplug MIDI USB interfaces too).

Seems like a simple and useful enhancement to me. I have 3 controllers, and one is a composite device that reports itself as two devices, so I could definitely test this.

Proper multi controller support will have to wait until the mapper rework.

[johnnovak]

Actually, wait a minute. When you remap the joy controls in the mapper, don't we handle multiple controllers already? Will have to test, but maybe setting a default controller in the config would still be desirable for the basic use case.