Re: standart events for hotkeys?

From: Chris Meadors
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 13:57:29 EST


Michal Semler wrote:

and this is what I mean. We should start project collecting this. As PCI cards list for example.

There are as many e-mail keys codes as there are e-mail programs. And I'm sure there is over lap, where one keyboard's e-mail key, generates the same code as another's web browser key. Also it doesn't really matter what a key is labeled, it could be assigned to anything.

What there should be is a program that is configurable, that says when you see this key event, do this. And such programs do exist, for example the GNOME desktop has ACME.

All that has to be done is make sure the kernel passes this codes, and the user space program can gather them. That seems to be working now.

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Chris
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