Followup to: <20000712162433.A11604@veritas.com>
By author: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Right now I had precisely the same objections: these keyboards
> have CD player buttons, and Power management buttons, and
> Browser buttons, etc. With a /dev/funkey one cannot have
> the cdplay program open /dev/funkey, one needs a separate funkeyd.
> But perhaps that is the right approach.
>
> We were just reminded that there is also traffic in the opposite
> direction: keys must be enabled, and LEDs set.
>
Most window managers seem perfectly capable intercepting keystrokes
anywhere they happen. This seems to me to be the right place of
addressing this.
-hpa
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