[solved] keyboard extra keys without x?

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yjia2 · Post by **yjia2** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:17 am

Pardon me if this has been asked before or if the answer is glaringly obvious...

Is there a package that acts like xbindkeys or or lineak xkbevd... assign commands to keycodes basically, but doesn't require X? like if it reads from the /dev/input/event* or something?

evkeyd seem to does this except i can't bind commands to keys

frozenJim · Post by **frozenJim** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:48 pm

I think that it depends on what desktop environment you have chosen.

KDE has a built-in system for handling all of your keyboard layout and "magic key" assignments. I think that I remember Enlightenment doing the same thing from text files.

Maybe change your subject line to include the name of your desktop and you'll get the right "expert" to respond.

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:45 pm

Moved from Gentoo Chat to Desktop Environments.

yjia2 · Post by **yjia2** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:48 pm

without x, like no x.... so no desktop....

Qubax · Post by **Qubax** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:40 pm

i'd also be interested in the answer ...

yjia2 · Post by **yjia2** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:17 am

Well I kinda solved this by messing with evkeyd so it'd run a command instead of do its predefined functions...