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"Disable my Internal Keyboard" (dik) uses evtest to grab your internal keyboard into test mode, thereby stopping it from taking input. This is useful when you're running a Wayland laptop and want to place your keyboard on the internal one.

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"Disable my Internal Keyboard" (dik) uses evtest to grab your internal keyboard into test mode, thereby stopping it from taking input. This is useful when you're running a Wayland laptop and want to place your keyboard on the internal one.

Tested on Fedora 35

Dependencies

  • evtest

Usage

Make the script executable.

chmod +x /path/to/dik

Disable the internal keyboard.

/path/to/dik

Re-enable the internal keyboard

/path/to/dik --stop

Install

cp /path/to/dik /usr/bin
chmod +x /usr/bin/dik

to uninstall

rm /usr/bin/dik

Acknowledgement

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/382225

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"Disable my Internal Keyboard" (dik) uses evtest to grab your internal keyboard into test mode, thereby stopping it from taking input. This is useful when you're running a Wayland laptop and want to place your keyboard on the internal one.

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