1Keyboard notifier 2 3One can use register_keyboard_notifier to get called back on keyboard 4events (see kbd_keycode() function for details). The passed structure is 5keyboard_notifier_param: 6 7- 'vc' always provide the VC for which the keyboard event applies; 8- 'down' is 1 for a key press event, 0 for a key release; 9- 'shift' is the current modifier state, mask bit indexes are KG_*; 10- 'value' depends on the type of event. 11 12- KBD_KEYCODE events are always sent before other events, value is the keycode. 13- KBD_UNBOUND_KEYCODE events are sent if the keycode is not bound to a keysym. 14 value is the keycode. 15- KBD_UNICODE events are sent if the keycode -> keysym translation produced a 16 unicode character. value is the unicode value. 17- KBD_KEYSYM events are sent if the keycode -> keysym translation produced a 18 non-unicode character. value is the keysym. 19- KBD_POST_KEYSYM events are sent after the treatment of non-unicode keysyms. 20 That permits one to inspect the resulting LEDs for instance. 21 22For each kind of event but the last, the callback may return NOTIFY_STOP in 23order to "eat" the event: the notify loop is stopped and the keyboard event is 24dropped. 25 26In a rough C snippet, we have: 27 28kbd_keycode(keycode) { 29 ... 30 params.value = keycode; 31 if (notifier_call_chain(KBD_KEYCODE,¶ms) == NOTIFY_STOP) 32 || !bound) { 33 notifier_call_chain(KBD_UNBOUND_KEYCODE,¶ms); 34 return; 35 } 36 37 if (unicode) { 38 param.value = unicode; 39 if (notifier_call_chain(KBD_UNICODE,¶ms) == NOTIFY_STOP) 40 return; 41 emit unicode; 42 return; 43 } 44 45 params.value = keysym; 46 if (notifier_call_chain(KBD_KEYSYM,¶ms) == NOTIFY_STOP) 47 return; 48 apply keysym; 49 notifier_call_chain(KBD_POST_KEYSYM,¶ms); 50} 51 52NOTE: This notifier is usually called from interrupt context. 53