On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:34:54 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On 19/12/14 08:27, jd1008 wrote:
>
> If you do not know the KeyCode, run the program:
> showkey
>
> and press the key in question
> and it's code will be displayed.
> You must wait 10 seconds of idle
> and showkey program will exit;
> then run the sudo script above.
>
This looks very useful to me .... but as usual I fall at the first
hurdle. When I type showkey or "showkey -k" I get:
> Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
And that's it. Anything I can do about this? (Please note: I am
running Fedora 17 --- yes, I know --- and using a Mate desktop; Mate
1.6.1 .)
You need to run showkey in a proper virtual terminal, aka ctrl-alt-f3
or such. It was not designed to work under X.
HTH, :-)
Marko