From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on sa.int.altlinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Message-ID: <47D95A78.1010803@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:46:48 +0300 From: Alexey Gladkov Organization: ALT Linux User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080303 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux console tools development discussion References: <1204740709.47cee265a93ae@webmail.etel.at> <47D4699C.1080405@gmail.com><000001c88293$0207d410$8119fea9@johi3> <47D510A4.9020805@gmail.com> <000001c8834e$24b94af0$8054d00a@johi3> In-Reply-To: <000001c8834e$24b94af0$8054d00a@johi3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [kbd] diagnostic and demo tool ushowkey X-BeenThere: kbd@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10b3 Precedence: list Reply-To: Linux console tools development discussion List-Id: Linux console tools development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:47:03 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: Josef Hinteregger wrote: > I would like to contribute a tool I have written. For the moment I > have called it ushowkey, kind of showkey with display of Unicode > information for the characters entered. It is not restricted to the > console. Here is a sample output from a putty session > > Press key(s) to display diagnostic info check if key codes are in > sync with locale encoding and if function keys are recognized by > ncurses/terminfo Leave with q, Ctrl-D, ESC, Return I really do not like the idea of adding dependence on ncurses/terminfo to kbd package only for this utility. I can put this utility into contrib directory. -- Rgrds, legion