From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: Alan Bryan <icemanind@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enhanced Keyboard Driver
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 22:26:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050512202633.GE8176@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050512194805.52183.qmail@web53101.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 2005-05-12 12:48:05 -0700, Alan Bryan <icemanind@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > What do you actually want to do?
> The part I'm having trouble with though is having it
> popup when predetermined keystrokes are pushed. I
> don't think Linux has a way to hook into the keyboard
> (if I'm wrong, someone please tell me).
Well, this sounds more like a userspace problem. Write a small app that
select()s on /dev/input/event* and get the keystrokes from there. From
there, you'd even start applikations. That's a lot more complicated to
achieve in kernel space :-)
MfG, JBG
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-12 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-12 19:22 Enhanced Keyboard Driver Alan Bryan
2005-05-12 19:39 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-05-12 19:48 ` Alan Bryan
2005-05-12 20:06 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-05-12 20:10 ` Joel Jaeggli
2005-05-12 20:26 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2005-05-12 20:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-12 19:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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