Turn your USB numpad into a full-fledged media (or other custom) keypad.
Q: How is this better than multimedia keys I have on my out-of-the-box keyboard?
A: This method:
- is a separate sattelite controller
- has way more keys, e.g. adjustment of playback speed
- allows to control volume of each app (even the background ones) seperately
- allows for custom actions
- works even with computer locked
- is not seen as keyboard input by the OS, so does not disturb your use of other keyboard or mouse
Current this only supports unix systems with dbus and alsa. I don't think I'll be spending time porting this, but pull requests adding support for additional operating systems are welcome.
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev(debian)sudo apt-get install python3-evdev(debian)python3 -m pip install pyalsaaudio- Copy
30-media-keypad.rulesto/etc/udev/rules.d - Make sure that your user is in the group
plugdev - Modify
media_keypad.pyaccording to your preferences, layout, apps - Add
media_keypad.pyto startup applications for your user session
experiments contain alternative ways that you may try to get this to work
icons contain icons that you can use to mod your keypad
kepad contain keypad svg with precise measurments (pull requests welcome)