What is the thinkpad-keys application?

[Marvin Raaijmakers]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 19:23 +0200, Mika Fischer wrote:
> Marvin Raaijmakers wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 20:52 +0200, Mika Fischer wrote:
> >> But please note that what you want already exists. Take a look at acpid
> >> and acpi_fakekey. It is included in the acpi-support package. You may
> >> also want to take a look at the scripts in /etc/acpi/ to see how it's
> >> used.
> > No it doens't exist yet, because acpi_hotkey is an X CLIENT that
> > simulates key press events using the XTest extension (or does it by the
> > XSendEvent function). So this solution will only work when the X server
> > and the machine running the X clients, run on the same machine.
> > Acpi_fakekey will neither work when more than two persons are running an
> > X session, because 1 ACPI event will cause 2 simulated key event (1 for
> > each user).
> > So my solution would be that an event device will be created
> > in /dev/input/ and for each acpi hotkey event, a key press event will be
> > written to that device. In other words: the X server will be able to use
> > an InputDevice for the ACPI hotkeys.
> 
> Sorry but that is not true. Please download the acpi-support package (from
> edgy!) and look at what acpi_fakekey.c does (it's only 64 lines of C). You
> will see that it has nothing at all to do with X.

Ow, sorry for saying that. I that case it is a very usefull little
program. BTW the author forgot to call close(fd) at the end of the main
function.

> 
> In fact it does exactly what you want to do with the added bonus that it
> does not create a special input device but uses the existing input device
> for the keyboard. So the ACPI events trigger fake key events of the real
> keyboard.
> 
> Regards, 
>  Mika
> 
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