Thanks, I'll have a play with it...
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:58:29PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > 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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]