[PLUG] Enhanced keyboards

patrick.n.fitzgerald.1 pfitzge1@purdue.edu
Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:59:06 -0500 (EST)


That would be the program "xev", which will show you all events received.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, patrick.t.finnegan.1 wrote:

> Well in any means, you can do any key on your keyboard that generates a
> proper scan code.  To discover the scan code, you can run the program
> in  a terminal and watch the keycodes scroll by when you press keys while
> its window is selected.  For example Ctrl-Break produces "keycode 114
> (keysym 0xff6b, Break)".  (sorry I dont have a windoze keyboard to test)
>
>
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