Hi there,
I also just had the same problem on an Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS box (with both
zsh and bash, on tty and on pseudo terminal running X). Is it already
known where this error message comes from, so we could change the string
to something more convenient recommending the user to become root or to
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
I agree that a more helpful error message would be helpful here. I am an
experience Ubuntu terminal user. However, it is not intuitive to me that
showkey should require root privileges. I would not have guessed this as
a solution to resolve this error.
A new error message could take several
Permission denied would follow terse convention. You must run as
root would be verbose convention I think.
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showkey fails with Couldn't
Running the command with root privileges indeed solves this issue, at
least in my case.
Perhaps echoing Are you root? on exit 1 would practical for the end
user.
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showkey only works with root privileges. Did you try sudo showkey?
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Status: New = Confirmed
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