Re: Semi-OT: Linux Keystroke Viewer

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:17:08 +0100, mcr wrote:
Hellmark wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:01:40 +0100, mcr wrote:
But as I said, some of the problems definitely ARE software related. I
want to find out which is which. If I treat it as if everything is a
hardware issue, throwing a new keyboard at it will not fix things.
I agree but to fault find you need to know which problems are hardware
related and which are software.. Put a new Keyboard in, the problems
that remain are software related.. fix them, then you can fix hardware.
At the moment you dont know what is causing which problem do you?

A program like that will tell me if the button is being pressed. If it is
a unproperly mapped with the X server, or not at all, a button could
function fine, be recognized by an app like this, but do nothing
generally. Then I can use it to help when I start hacking the keyboard
itself, by seeing how which crossed circuits generate which keypresses.
.

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