[00:45] anyone able to assist in writing an upstart job for forever.js? [14:39] hi, is there a way to configure keyboard to emit upstart events on pressing some special key combinations? [17:18] karolyi: if you can get the kernel to notify a userspace daemon, it can emit events [17:21] SpamapS: yes, but the question is, how [17:21] i've been goggling around for half a day now [17:21] *googling [18:23] karolyi: the easiest way would be to patch some of the keyboard handling code in the kernel to emit a uevent when the specific key combination is done, you could then have upstart trigger on that uevent with the existing udev bridge [18:25] stgraber: so, i guess i can't do that without actual patching [18:25] right [18:26] depending on the kind of keyboard, you may be able to eavesdrop through the /dev/input devices, but I'm not sure if that works and if it does, I doubt it's going to be particularly reliable [18:27] actually i'm not allowed to patch the kernel here, we should stick to the supplied ubuntu kernel version :) [18:28] however, this was my idea too, i just didn't knew that this can't be achieved now with the stock kernel [18:30] well, it's not something we need in the distro and having that kind of thing in the kernel and I guess people don't want to make it too simple to implement a key logger ;) [18:36] stgraber: you're right, but my target is now to achieve a volume controller by the multimedia keys, behind the X server, because my windowmanager steals the focus if i set the controller script to the appropriate keys