On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Vijay Kumar wrote: > Saravanan S <dearsarava...@...> writes: > > Hi all, > > I used xmodmap to block few key strokes in my distro. > > How to initiate/trigger a key combination like say (Ctrl+Shift+Y) as if > the > > user has pressed those keys?? > > Keystrokes can be fed to the kernel using the uinput subsystem. The uinput > subsystem can be accessed through the device file /dev/uinput. But the > interface > is low-level. A wrapper library called libsuinput > http://codegrove.org/libsuinput/ makes things simpler. The code using the > wrapper library is given below. For the sake of simplicity error handling > code > has been omitted. > > #include <suinput.h> > > int main(void) > { > struct input_id id = {BUS_BLUETOOTH, 13, 3, 7}; > int uinput_fd = suinput_open("HelloInput", &id); > > suinput_press(uinput_fd, KEY_LEFTCTRL); > suinput_press(uinput_fd, KEY_LEFTSHIFT); > suinput_press(uinput_fd, KEY_Y); > > suinput_release(uinput_fd, KEY_Y); > suinput_release(uinput_fd, KEY_LEFTSHIFT); > suinput_release(uinput_fd, KEY_LEFTCTRL); > > return 0; > } > > Note: You should have uinput module loaded into the kernel. You should have > sufficient privileges to access the device file. >
I could not install libsuinput. Is there any other way to just trigger a single/a combination of key stroke(s)??? Saravanan Sundaramoorthy Red Hat Certified Engineer +91 99404 32545 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
