Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262073AbVELUK4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:10:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262074AbVELUK4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:10:56 -0400 Received: from twin.uoregon.edu ([128.223.214.27]:11981 "EHLO twin.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262073AbVELUKt (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:10:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:10:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Alan Bryan cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Enhanced Keyboard Driver In-Reply-To: <20050512194805.52183.qmail@web53101.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20050512194805.52183.qmail@web53101.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1418 Lines: 39 On Thu, 12 May 2005, Alan Bryan 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... why not just use screen? or emacs as your shell? > 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). > > Alan > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/