Can NOMone Desktop support a Logitech Unifying USB dongle paired with a K400 or K400r combined keyboard and trackpad

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Re: Can NOMone Desktop support a Logitech Unifying USB dongle paired with a K400 or K400r combined keyboard and trackpad

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Unfortunately I find that the internet can be sadly a fertile place for a frank exchange of views, which normally would never happen in a traditional face-to-face or even a phone exchange.
Truce / reset?
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Re: Can NOMone Desktop support a Logitech Unifying USB dongle paired with a K400 or K400r combined keyboard and trackpad

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engineer wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:23 am Truce / reset?
By all means! Glad we are on the same page again :)

And we've fixed the issue :D Please download the nightly version from our website:
https://desktop.nomone.com/Download/

Or wait for the Google Play version (we still have some more work to do before the next release, so it's going to be a while).

Turns out, it's a keyboard + mouse combo issue! In Android, pressing the mouse right button generates a mouse event and a keyboard event too, a back key press. So, in order to avoid sending these back key-presses to Linux, we filter the events using the source. If the event is triggered by a mouse, it's not sent to the keyboard handling altogether. That was the whole problem. Some keyboard + mouse/trackpad combos identify themselves as a single device that is both a keyboard and a mouse. So, even though the key-events were actually from the keyboard, because their origin is also a mouse, they were filtered out.

Sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully it's fixed now. If you ever run into issues, we'd love to help :)
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Re: Can NOMone Desktop support a Logitech Unifying USB dongle paired with a K400 or K400r combined keyboard and trackpad

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FYI Using the 18th October nightly build, I've managed a quick test of three Logitech 'combo' keyboards and trackpads. I used their USB hardware dongles, to connect to an Android mobile and they all seem to work just fine. They are:
1) Logitech K400
2) Logitech K400r
3) Logitech K600

The mobile spec was: Samsung Galaxy A51 2019, 128 GB internal storage, 6GB RAM, Android 10.0.

Many thanks for your help on this. Looking forward to the next Google Play release.
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Re: Can NOMone Desktop support a Logitech Unifying USB dongle paired with a K400 or K400r combined keyboard and trackpad

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Thank you for confirming with us that this issue is fixed :)
We are currently working on updating the Linux image and will be releasing the new apk on Google Play shortly after that if Allah wills.
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