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Today I'm going to show you how I turned a cheap USB numeric keypad into a pad that I use for my digital painting shortcuts under GNU/Linux.
→ Tutorial: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article989/how-to-customise-a-usb-numeric-keypad-under-gnulinux
@davidrevoy Hi Deevad, I just want to point out that USB VIDs are not unique to every keyboard but every product at best and every product that uses a certain microcontroller at worst.
That said I'm not sure what a better solution would be :) Just keep it in mind that someone could theoretically lose the draw and have two of the same VIDs
DaveNull
pResident Evil@jookia USB Vendor IDs (first ID lsusb) are not unique, as all the devices from the same manufacturers well have the same but USB Product IDs (second ID in lsusb) combined with Vendo IDs are "unique enough", so unless you use abnormally high number of different USB HID devices and you are extremely unlucky to have the same VID and same PID for 2 similar devices (numpads, or numpad and keyboard), risk or having these remapping accidentally applied to other devices are pretty low.
Yes I meant VID+PID combination
@jookia If you own multiple numpads/keyboards, you can still easily (should?) check whether you have more than one with the sane ID as the one you want to remap keys for, but chances are low enough.