On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is > no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I would just like to know > the number of keypresses I am generating everyday and perhaps the number > of times each key is pressed.
Hi Kiran. I wrote a small kernel patch that worked with my keyboards. I think it can be ported to a recent kernel. I can do it if you're interested. http://svn.arhuaco.org/svn/src/pcgotchi/trunk/proc-keystrokes.patch.linux-2.6.12.2.txt I wrote about this more than 2 years ago. http://arhuaco.blogspot.com/2005/10/cat-prockeystrokes-keyboard-fun.html How shall we do this without going to kernel space? * I think I can do something similar using /dev/input/. * Also with X? Please give me some advise now that the issue came up. I couldn't care less about a keylogger but I care about the statistics. I asked in LKML with no answer. Regards, Nelson.- BTW: 1) http://pcgotchi.blogspot.com/ I made my old machine post in a weblog. (Well, I didn't automate it but it is easy). If I don't have to go to kernel space, I might do it again. I don't want to build kernels all the time I have to upgrade them. 2) It is not hard to make a programmable keyboard. The simple patch I wrote can be a starting point. -- http://arhuaco.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
