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My virtual keyboard device isn't being picked up by gnome

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patrick_corrigan

I've created a virtual keyboard using uinput

I can see the input device in /sys/devices/virtual/input

as input7

The key presses don't seem to be registered in xwindows

From what I can tell it's not showing up in xinput -list

Looking at input7 directory in /sys/devices/virtual/input I could see a directory event4

Using evtest I can see the keyboard events are being generated successfully.

Event: time 1624187132.489135, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 1
Event: time 1624187132.489135, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187134.489502, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 0
Event: time 1624187134.489502, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187134.681998, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 1
Event: time 1624187134.681998, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187136.682230, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 0
Event: time 1624187136.682230, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187136.682537, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 1
Event: time 1624187136.682537, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187138.683337, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 0
Event: time 1624187138.683337, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187138.683697, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 1
Event: time 1624187138.683697, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187140.684101, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 0
Event: time 1624187140.684101, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187144.894104, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 1
Event: time 1624187144.894104, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1624187146.895425, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 45 (KEY_X), value 0
Event: time 1624187146.895425, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

But they're not being passed to xwindows - I'm thinking of trying to add it manually but am I doing something wrong or missing something simple :)

Looking at dmesg I can see the input being created

input: testkeyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input7

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