I am the author of showkey. I only just became aware of this bug myself, by trying to run showkey in the terminal emulator under i3. The curious thing about it is that "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console" does not occur as a string in the program source.
I think something else is emitting it, possibly the shell. When I googled to try to figure out what, I found this big thread. The code ran fine under xfce, so there is likely some window-manager specific thing going on. I confirm that going root works around the problem. I think it would be annoying to force users to go root in environments where it's not necessary, so I'm going to document this as a known problem on the man page and give the workaround. The 1,8 release has been shipped. My apologies for not catching this sooner. It's not a program I use often. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006676 Title: showkey fails with "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kbd/+bug/1006676/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
