[BRLTTY] Proof of concept code: Filter keyboard keypresses on Linux

[Mario Lang]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Andor Demarteau, le Sat 15 Dec 2007 17:28:30 +0100, a écrit :
>> nice concept however for yoru special gkeys you could have used 
>> setkeycoeds and loadkey, at elast for the console.
>> on my dell inspiron system some keypresses give off unknown keycode 
>> messages.
>> It refers to setkeycodes to assign them
>
> Right, but that only permits to assign them usual meanings or simulating
> insertion of a string on the current console. That doesn't permit to
> increase the volume of the sound board or activate the wireless network
> for instance.  BTW, Mario, I think your piece of code may be of use for
> a lot of people for these examples and not only non-sighted users.

Yes, I am aware that this functionality could be useful as
a stand alone command line utility, I am still pondering
how to design its interface...

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