RE: "Internet Keyboard" support for Linux

Ryan Lortie (desertangel@globalserve.net)
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:54:29 +0000


> >It produces scancodes

[snip]

> >
> >If you want to use these, attach keycodes using the setkeycodes utility.
> >Then attach actions or strings to these keycodes using loadkeys.
> >
> >Andries

Simply attaching strings and such to the keys are not acceptable. I want to be
able to have keypresses send signals, launch applications, do netscape -remote
stuff, etc, etc

My system involves a kernelspace driver to intercept these codes, and a
user-space daemon to process them.

Ryan

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