Any joystick profiler for Linux with "modes" support?

[eduardhc]

Hi,
I have an old Saitek X-45 that I'd like to start using with some flight simulator games I used to play some time ago under Windows, now that Wine seems to greatly improve compatibility everyday.

These kind of "complex" joysticks usually comes with a software that lets you directly reprogram the buttons to send keypresses to the game, taking advantage of the different modes it supports (mine has 2 mode switches with 3 positions every), so you can i.e. define 3 different modes, with different keybindings in each, that you change at play time by just changing the switch in the joystick.

Also they usually allows the user to define a button to act as a "shift" button, so you gain an additional set of modes while using the other buttons with that one pressed.

For Windows there was even an unofficial set of drivers (Dhauzimmer's) for that joystick that added even more features that original Saitek drivers.

I've seen that there a couple of projects like QJoyPad and joy2key out there, but none seems to provide such an advanced functionality. If there isn't really any similar software for Linux, then maybe I'll myself to create one (probably using any of these as a base) mysql.

Best regards,
Eduard

[pelelademadera]

may help xev and xmodmap.

open xev, press joystick keys and check the code of the key
then asign them with xmodmap like this, creating a text file like ~/joykeys

[eduardhc]

Thanks for the suggestion, although I don't think this could cover the whole mode switch functionality and so. Maybe with some heavy scripting, but anyway too complex.
I've started digging into QJoyPad code, and I think I'll take some ideas from there.

Regards
Eduard