[BRLTTY] Filter keyboard keypresses on Linux

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Sat Dec 15 16:39:40 EST 2007


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

> Dave Mielke, le Sat 15 Dec 2007 14:56:32 -0500, a écrit :
>> Can anyone tell me how Speakup intercepts key events? If we use this scheme how 
>> will we be interacting with it? Does it intercept them first, do we, does one 
>> scheme disable or conflict with the otehr, etc?
>
> The input layer intercepts keys before Speakup does. THey should nicely
> work together (except that we should take care of not stealing hotkeys
> from Speakup).

Ah, thats great.  So we should obviously not define any speakup hotkeys
in brltty by default.  If someone *wants* to define a conflict
in his user configuration, I'd say we have no way of detecting this in advance.

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