Re: Enhanced Keyboard Driver

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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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