softwedge.git published
I’ve just published a quicky little program called softwedge which is designed to easily use many serial-port based barcode scanners (including many wireless Bluetooth scanners) with common X11 applications. It takes the serial port data stream and converts the characters into X11 keypress events which are sent via the XTest extension to the active cursor position.
There is no release yet, but you can get to the .git repository here: http://repo.or.cz/w/softwedge.git and check it out. It has been tested with and designed around a Metrologic FocusBT Bluetooth 2d-imager scanner.
Note that you don’t need this software if you have a USB based HID-compatible barcode scanner.
