Re: Keyboard programming needs root

[Daniël Mantione <daniel.mantione@freepascal.org>]

Op Thu, 19 Jul 2007, schreef Bodo Eggert:

> Daniël Mantione <daniel.mantione@freepascal.org> wrote:
> > Op Thu, 19 Jul 2007, schreef Dmitry Torokhov:
> >> On 7/14/07, Daniel Mantione <daniel.mantione@freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> > To make this discussion productive, I want to work towards a solution. I
> > don't mind how I can make the keyboard work as it should, I just want it
> > work. Think of the needs of a user interface, you walk through controls
> > using tab and shift+tab, put common commands under the function keys and
> > shift/control/alt combinations. Cursor control in an editor is done with
> > the navigation pad on your keyboard: arrows, home/end/pgup/pgdown, plus
> > shift/control/alt combinations with them.
> > 
> > That is all, nothing fancy. Could the kernel support a way to do this?
> 
> It could, but nobody had the idea of combining a cooked mode and a raw mode
> like DOS provides. OK, DOS did not do a good job, you had to peek the shift
> status separately, but you had the assigned character as well as the
> (translated) scancode. IIRC, X11 does the same, but with the scancodes
> (and the mouse coordinates?) included.

Well, let's go for it then. Where to start?

Greetings,

Daniël Mantione