Re: Re (hello?): [PATCH] Let keyboard notifiers modify key codes
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date: 2009-01-12 22:56:06
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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:quoted
Alan Cox, le Fri 09 Jan 2009 22:01:44 +0000, a écrit :quoted
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Surely that is just a new keymap ?No. That would mean a lot of keymapSSS. Doing it the keymap wayWhy - 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html