Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2005 15:45:19 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Enhanced Keyboard Driver |
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On 5/12/05, Alan Bryan <icemanind@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > What do you actually want to do? > > > specifically, I am trying to write a program similar > to the old Sidekick program of the DOS days. A > "daemon", if you will, that will popup on the screen > when a predetermined series of keystrokes are hit. The > program will then do various things, like record/play > macros, calculator, calendar, programmer's guide, etc > etc... > > 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, I don't think you want to tap into the kernel driver for that. I mean if one uses X over the network I would assume that the popup driver will run on the remote box while keyboard is on my local box.
The daemon is for X environment, right? You need to work with X server, not kernel.
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