On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:12:39 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 2008 November 27 22:20, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > I need to kill my screen reader when opening emacs. So I'm writing a > > script. I can kill it on the keyboard with insert and numpad enter. So > > is there anyway to type this key command from a script? If so how. I > > just want a script to type this key for me basically so I don't have to > > press it each time... > > I think there's a fakekey command that basically delivers a keyboard event to > the kernel, which is probably the easiest way to do that. ISTR the ACPI > scripts using that. > > ... From investigations on my local system. Try using acpi_fakekey from the > acpi-support package. Not sure the best way to determine what keycode > Ins+NumEnter is.
I think "showkey" from package kdb or console-tools (depending on which you use) should give you the right keycodes if we are talking about the normal (non-X) keyboard. Here is what I get for Ins+NumEnter: keycode 110 press keycode 96 press keycode 96 release keycode 110 release -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
