Is there a way to map ABXY buttons to the key that I want?

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First of all, thanks to commuinty member for helping us, especially @Rex for building a wonderful bookworm distro.

When I press ABXY buttons in the normal OS environment, nothing happens, but as you guys know, they work in games.

I’m using his bookworm lite with Xfce, and I want to map uConsole’s ABXY buttons to other keys(keyboards) that I want.

If you guys know any ways to do this?

Thanks.

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No one else has answered so I will give a try. Short answer, no. Longer answer the keyboard is an Arduino sketch and you can modify it as you want. Maybe there is a linux way to change the game buttons to something else but I am not aware of it.
I am looking to make some changes myself. In particular I want to change the ball click to left click and remap middle click to something else.

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I was able to catch button events using python.

import evdev
from evdev import InputDevice, categorize, ecodes
import subprocess

device = InputDevice('/dev/input/event5')

for event in device.read_loop():
    if event.type == ecodes.EV_KEY:
        key_event = categorize(event)
        if key_event.keystate == key_event.key_down:
            if 'BTN_TRIGGER' in key_event.keycode:
                subprocess.run(["setfont", "/usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold24x12.psf.gz"])
            elif key_event.keycode == 'BTN_THUMB':
                subprocess.run(["setfont", "/usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold20x10.psf.gz"])

Not sure about Xfce. I’m using it in tty0.

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Oh, that’s cool. I’ll try it!
Thank you.

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I tried your method and it caught the keyboard input well, but not ABXY buttons.
Did it catch game buttons in your environment(tty0)?

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Did it catch game buttons in your environment(tty0)?

Yes. There are different input devices for different keyboard parts. And they could have different names on different systems. ‘/dev/input/event5’ was for ABXY on the stock Raspbian that I had at the time. And LR were on event4 I think. And now I have different mapping on Debian 12, but the method works without any issues.

Python evdev lib has ways to deal with multiple devices but I just tried all available devices. There are some examples:
https://python-evdev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#reading-events-from-multiple-devices-using-asyncio

I’ve checked it again and was able to catch events from the qwerty part, the arrows, LR, ABXY and even BTN_MIDDLE (which is the button under the trackball).

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