Re: [tlug] Keyboard mappings

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:25:28 +0900 (JST)
Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> 
> > Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Sounds like these keys are not generating keyboard events, but are
> > > generating some other sort of events that are trapped in some other way.
> > > Probably these are APM or ACPI events. I other words, the system doesn't
> > > see these as "keyboard keys," but sees them as separate buttons, as with
> > > the power button.
> > 
> > There used to be a gnome tool (daemon) a while ago (was called acid or
> > something similar) that mapped these key events to acpi events.
> 
> Uh...my point was, these are not key events; they are not seen by the
> system as keyboard keys.

My point was that they can be key events, my own box is an example for
this: xev sees if I press sleep/power/wake.

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