speckeysd(1M)speckeysd(1M)NAMEspeckeysd - Detects special keys on Type 5 or Compact 1 keyboard
SYNOPSIS
/usr/openwin/bin/speckeysd
AVAILABILITY
SUNWpmowu
DESCRIPTIONspeckeysd(1M) is a daemon that is started at CDE or OpenWindows start
time to pick up the Sun Special Key strokes from Type 5 and Compact 1
keyboards. The Sun Special Keys are the following:
Power Key
Shift-Power Key
RaiseVolume Key
LowerVolume Key
Mute Key
Degauss Key
The daemon waits on the Sun Special Key strokes, which are sent to it
by the X Windows server as XEvents. On receiving the keystrokes, the
daemon will then fork off a service to handle the key.
If the Sun Special Key has been specified as a repeatable key, then a
pipe is opened to the service's STDIN. Every subsequent keystroke that
is received within a timeout is sent to the service through the pipe as
the character 'k'.
The daemon reads speckeysd.map(4), a keys-to-service map file, to
determine which of the Sun Special Keys to expect and what service to
spawn off to handle the key stroke.
FILES
/usr/openwin/lib/speckeysd.map keys-to-service map file
/tmp/speckeysd.lock lock-file generated by the daemon
SEE ALSOspeckeysd.map(4)
7 Mar 1995 speckeysd(1M)