[Linux-users] X keyboard checker

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>I seem to recall a program that came with X11 that prints info about key
>presses. All I can find is xev, which is a bit too much. The program I
>recall was a bit less wordy and was limited to the keyboard. I need to
>diagnose a possible keyboard problem on a system in the woods of
>Lithuania.  Anyone recall the name of this utility?

If all one needs is to find the codes generated by keys, the vi
editor with liberal applications of ctrl-v<key> is often enough.

It's not difficult to cob together something with python's curses
interface to loop and display key press information using the
curses.keyname method.

Bill
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