Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:37:00 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: Feature for sysrq. |
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Martin Mares:
: On the other hand, it might be useful to add a capability to the keyboard : driver allowing arbitrary programs to be executed on press of given key : combination. This might be simply accomplished by passing a message : to kerneld. But now I have no time for implementing such a thing.
It is there already. Look at the kbd docs and the SpawnConsole (a.k.a. KbdRequest) keysym. I use it mainly to get a fresh console running login or bash each time I press Alt-UpArrow, but there exists a dynamic-console package that does more general things with this keypress.
Andries
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