NAME

speckeysd - Detects special keys on Type 5 or Compact 1 keyboard

SYNOPSIS

/usr/openwin/bin/speckeysd

AVAILABILITY

SUNWpmow

DESCRIPTION

speckeysd(1M) is a daemon that is started at 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
RaiseBrightness Key
LowerVolume Key
LowerBrightness 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 ALSO

speckesyd.map(4)