lembas: thanks. It seems like you think I should find an extra device to send
commands to start the program?
Progress: I've been unable to find anything like xbindkeys or irxevent that
can watch an arbitray device in /dev/input. I thought briefly of browsing and
modifying the source code of either program, but instead I think I SHOULD be
able to do something this simple with a shell script.
>evtest< offers something interesting: the --query option queries the current
state of a certain button and returns 0 if it is not pressed, non-zero if it
is. I can set up a watch command like this >watch evtest --query
/dev/input/event10 EV_KEY BTN_MODEevtest
