OK. Where can I find (technical) documentation about this program and its source code? I am interested in this because it might be possible to write a quite simulair application that reads ACPI hotkey events and simulates for each event a key press.
- Marvin Raaijmakers On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 14:29 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:37:06AM +0200, Marvin Raaijmakers wrote: > > I have Ubuntu installed on my ThinkPad T60 and I noticed that an > > application called thinkpad-keys makes the volume up/down/mute keys > > work. After running this application, there is a new event device > > in /dev/input/ (does this userspace application create a device?). > > So I am asking myself what the thinkpad-keys application actually is and > > does. > > The special ThinkPad keys (volume, etc.) do not send key codes; instead > they flip bits in /dev/nvram. The thinkpad-keys program from the > hotkey-setup package watches those bits and simulates keypresses using > the kernel's input layer. > > > Google couldn't give me the answer (or is it tpb? > > http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/). > > tpb is a different (and older) program that watches /dev/nvram, but > instead of simulating keypresses (and letting the user map those via the > normal mechanisms) it executes programs directly. > > > So I think someone on this list will be able to answer my question. > > HTH, > Marius Gedminas -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
