Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: IBM Rapid Access Keyboard | | Date | 12 Jul 2000 08:52:20 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20000712162433.A11604@veritas.com> By author: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > Right now I had precisely the same objections: these keyboards > have CD player buttons, and Power management buttons, and > Browser buttons, etc. With a /dev/funkey one cannot have > the cdplay program open /dev/funkey, one needs a separate funkeyd. > But perhaps that is the right approach. > > We were just reminded that there is also traffic in the opposite > direction: keys must be enabled, and LEDs set. >
Most window managers seem perfectly capable intercepting keystrokes anywhere they happen. This seems to me to be the right place of addressing this.
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