On Aug 21 2007 02:57, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Some external modules like Speakup need to use the PC keyboard to control >them and also need to get keyboard feedback (caps lock status, etc.) > >This adds a keyboard notifier that such modules can use to get the keyboard >events and possibly eat them, at several stages: > >- keycodes: even before translation into keysym.
They can use the raw xlation for that. The "showkeys" utility and Xorg are likely to do that. (In fact, there is a helping sysrq called Unraw in case there are problems.) >- unbound keycodes: when no keysym is bound. >- unicode: when the keycode would get translated into a unicode character. >- keysym: when the keycode would get translated into a keysym. >- post_keysym: after the keysym got interpreted, so as to see the result > (caps lock, etc.) For all these, I think new xlats should be added that have the desired behavior. >+ int shift; /* Current shift mask */ >+ unsigned int value; /* keycode, unicode value or keysym */ >+}; >+ >+extern int register_keyboard_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); >+extern int unregister_keyboard_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); > #endif > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
