On 09/23/08 11:24, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl>

* Package name : esekeyd
Version : 1.2.3
Upstream Author : Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl>
* URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/esekeyd/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux

ESE Key Daemon is a multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux. With the 2.6 kernel
series it can also handle remote controls, as they are presented as keyboards.
No kernel patch is required. It is a userspace program that pools
/dev/input/event? interfaces for incoming keyboard key presses.


Is "ESE" some special keyboard?

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2008/9/23 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> On 09/23/08 11:24, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:
>> * Package name : esekeyd
> Is "ESE" some special keyboard?

Unfortunately, it is just random keystroke to make program name a bit
longer. :-)

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On 09/23/08 12:45, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:

2008/9/23 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:

On 09/23/08 11:24, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:

* Package name : esekeyd

Is "ESE" some special keyboard?


Unfortunately, it is just random keystroke to make program name a bit
longer. :-)




So this is "simply" Yet Another Way to handle multimedia keys? What
makes it better than existing techniques?


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2008/9/23 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> So this is "simply" Yet Another Way to handle multimedia keys? What makes
> it better than existing techniques?

It probably simpler than anything else. It does not need anything else
then Linux kernel to handle keys. It parses key codes internally and
execute command defined in configuration file. It handles also remote
control (those presented as keyboard event devices), so you can
execute some commands with RC. It was also reported to work with...
bar code scanner :-)

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2008/9/23 Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 06:24:04PM +0200, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:
>> ESE Key Daemon is a multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux. With the 2.6 kernel
>> series it can also handle remote controls, as they are presented as keyboards.
>> No kernel patch is required. It is a userspace program that pools
>> /dev/input/event? interfaces for incoming keyboard key presses.
>
> Sounds like it does something similar as inputlirc (for which I'm both upstream
> and Debian maintainer), or does it do something else?

Difference is that inputlirc forwards key codes to lirc clients, so
you need irexec (from lirc package) to execute command on button
press. My solution has ability to execute command without using lirc
(command is defined in esekeyd.conf). On the other hand esekeyd cannot
forward keys to lirc clients.

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