I've been having a rough day, working on this, and coming up short. It's taken a lot of reboots, which wear me down in particular.
Here is the xinput
with the wireless usb device plugged in.
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
��� ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PixArt USB Optical Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ CHICONY USB Keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ CHICONY USB Keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
I then enter the following commands, and see the resulting xinput
, and I see the other pointer on the screen, either as a cursor or standard pointer, and it is blinking, and it jitters as i type on the first, wired usb keyboard, but the neither the touchpad or the keyboard of the wireless device are working as might be expected. It's a Microsoft All-in-one Media Keyboard. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.1 (and I feel I should note I chose the "minimal install" from the start.) It may also be of note that I'm using two monitors from 1 16-lane GPU. Thank you for any help you can give.
$ xinput create-master wireless
$ xinput reattach 10 16
$ xinput reattach 11 16
$ xinput reattach 9 17
$ xinput reattach 15 17
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PixArt USB Optical Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ CHICONY USB Keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ CHICONY USB Keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
⎡ wireless pointer id=16 [master pointer (17)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=10 [slave pointer (16)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=11 [slave pointer (16)]
⎜ ↳ wireless XTEST pointer id=18 [slave pointer (16)]
⎣ wireless keyboard id=17 [master keyboard (16)]
↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=9 [slave keyboard (17)]
↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0 id=15 [slave keyboard (17)]
↳ wireless XTEST keyboard id=19 [slave keyboard (17)]
/etc/X11/xorg.com
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 396.54 (buildd@lgw01-amd64-044) Tue Aug 21 18:18:46 UTC 2018
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 396.54 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-14) Wed Aug 15 00:22:27 PDT 2018
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Acer AL2223W"
HorizSync 31.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 1070"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "True"
Option "Coolbits" "31"
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1440+0, DVI-D-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection