Re: attempting to open a VT from elsewhere and take raw keyboard input

On Jul 17 2007 22:01, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> Yes I know that X does it; I'm trying to write a new windowing system
> which also does that, and the question is how they did it.  I would
> have expected if I just open /dev/tty1, set raw mode, and set some
> termios flags I'd get every key press and release; and it would be my
> choice whether to use blocking or non-blocking I/O.

Why, look at the Xorg source code.


	Jan
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- Re: attempting to open a VT from elsewhere and take raw keyboard input
  - From: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>
- Re: attempting to open a VT from elsewhere and take raw keyboard input
  - From: "Shawn Rutledge" <[email protected]>

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