Re: 113: plugin/keyboard vs. plugin/kbd_unicode ?

Bart Oldeman
2002-07-29T21:34:09Z

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
> > In plugin/kbd_unicode, "no keyboard" is explicitly recognised,
> > but doesn't seem to default to reading stdin ?
> Looking in keyb_none.c it seems
> that "no keyboard" does absolutely
> nothing - just a dummy client.
> Raw keyboard client seems to be
> using stdin (see raw_keyboard_init() ).

It uses a special mode of stdin, raw mode, which is only available at
the console.

The slang keyboard should work with stdin eventually -- it should check
for a tty at some places where it does not now. Feel free to look into
it ;)

Bart