[ltp] Re: Re: How to handle Fn-F5 and other special keys with latest kernels ?

[David Bremner]

At Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:27:00 +0200,
Frédéric Boiteux wrote:
>=20
> FYI, on latest kernels, the Fn-F5 no more generates an ACPI event, only
> an input key event, brought by HAL. So the question is : how to get
> this HAL / input key event to possibly call a dedicated script, at the
> system level.

I use halevt for this kind of thing, although you might need a patch
from the debian bug tracking system to make it distinguish between hot
keys.

d