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SubjectRe: Re (hello?): [PATCH] Let keyboard notifiers modify key codes
Derek Fawcus, le Mon 12 Jan 2009 22:36:21 +0000, a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:23:41PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Alan Cox, le Fri 09 Jan 2009 22:01:44 +0000, a écrit :
> > > > > Surely that is just a new keymap ?
> > > >
> > > > No. That would mean a lot of keymapSSS. Doing it the keymap way
> > >
> > > Why - its an algorithmic question about how to edit them - remember you
> > > can edit keymaps in programs at runtime and live.
> >
> > Right. I'm still afraid by that: we'd need to know how to remap the
> > various keycodes (amiga, atari, i386, mc, sun).
>
> Err - just use EVIOCSKEYCODE to swap the keycodes around, this works
> in terms of the evdev keycodes. I use it in a small program to swap
> around a bunch of keys.
>
> A bit more of a challange would be listening to evdev, and when
> detecting the 'swap' keycode, doing the reload with the actual swaps.

Yes, that seems a bit unsafe to me. Another solution is to just grab
all the keyboard devices, and reemit the wanted evdev keycodes. Quite
clumsy.

> I'm not sure w/o reading the code if the kernel will allow this to be
> shared between the tty and evdev on the same vt,

What do you mean by "this"? The raw keycode -> input keycode
translation? My guess is that it is recorded for the device itself, not
related to things like VTs, and thus is global.

> but then one could run a controller program talking through a pty and
> direct to the keyboard.

Ugh. I'd prefer grabing evdev rather that using a pty.

Samuel
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