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[Mike Lerley <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I should note that I don't have a Microsoft keyboard but a Saitek
Eclipse II keyboard. Relevant inputs:

/dev/input/event5
   bustype : BUS_USB
   vendor  : 0x6a3
   product : 0x8021
   version : 273
   name    : "Chicony Saitek Eclipse II Keyboa"
   phys    : "usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0"
   uniq    : ""
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP

/dev/input/event6
   bustype : BUS_USB
   vendor  : 0x6a3
   product : 0x8021
   version : 273
   name    : "Chicony Saitek Eclipse II Keyboa"
   phys    : "usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1"
   uniq    : ""
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC

The feature that causes the problem here is the button to turn
on/off/change the kb backlight color.  input-events for
/dev/input/event6:

First press (backlight off->blue): emulates left click
19:43:40.885931: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -16646143
19:43:40.885936: EV_KEY BTN_0 (0x100) pressed
19:43:40.885941: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -16646140
19:43:40.885942: EV_KEY BTN_3 (0x103) released
19:43:40.885943: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

Second press (blue->red): emulates middle click
19:43:43.101984: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -16646143
19:43:43.101989: EV_KEY BTN_0 (0x100) released
19:43:43.101992: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -16646142
19:43:43.101992: EV_KEY BTN_1 (0x101) pressed
19:43:43.101996: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

Third press (red->purple): emulates right click
19:43:38.005865: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -16646142
19:43:38.005869: EV_KEY BTN_1 (0x101) released
19:43:38.005871: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -16646141
19:43:38.005872: EV_KEY BTN_2 (0x102) pressed
19:43:38.005874: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

Fourth press (purple->off) emulates ???
19:43:39.765915: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -16646141
19:43:39.765921: EV_KEY BTN_2 (0x102) released
19:43:39.765925: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN -1664614019
19:43:39.765926: EV_KEY BTN_3 (0x103) pressed
19:43:39.765928: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

It seems to me this might be fundamentally a udev issue.. but I'm not
qualified to judge that.

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  Keyboard special keys interfere with mouse

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