Walter Berthold wrote:
>
> Does anybody know how to bind a key from the keyboard
> to start a specified program ?
>
> I have an embedded system containing a complete PC-104
> Intel PC, but reduced keyboard with 10 keys.
> I would like to bind the F12 Key to start a process
> (program or script) at any state of the system.
> (Running X-server or not, no shell running,
> no user logged in, any application in foreground, etc.)
>
> Ctrl-Alt-Del for example is bound to "Boot".
> What does "Boot" mean - kernel function?
> application file name? - and why does it not work,
> when X is running?
Lock in your /etc/inittab for the following entry:
# special keyboard request (Alt-UpArrow)
# look into the kbd-0.90 docs for this
kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request -- edit /etc/inittab to let
this work."
and change this entry. Maybe, that's what you want.
Good luck :-)
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