Mario Lang, le Sat 15 Dec 2007 19:11:09 +0100, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...

A configuration file that associates key presses with some actions,
something like 

As root Exec command
As root Ioctl foo
As samy Exec fetchmail

... would probably meet my needs.

Samuel
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