[Toybox] Request for two commands to be added to toybox please.

[enh]

these aren't the toys you're looking for...

if you're running raw X11, you want something like speckeysd
(https://github.com/software-jessies-org/jessies/tree/master/x11-extras).

if you're using GNOME or KDE or xfce or whatever, they all have their
own built-in equivalents, and you'll want to read the docs for
whichever you're using. (this looks like GNOME's:
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-shortcuts-set.html)

the stuff rob's talking about is for the linux console before you
start X11. (and is more like
https://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/xmodmap.1.html in the X11
world.)

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 12:54 AM scsijon <scsijon at lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
>
> sorry for the delay, but I wanted to think how to respond, I have
> changed my ideas slightly since there is a key identification problem,
> and I hope it still makes some sense.
>
> On 10/09/19 11:35, Rob Landley wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 9/9/19 3:29 AM, scsijon wrote:
> >> You did ask for submissions for '?possibly missing?' commands!
> >>
> >> Can I ask for these two to be considered to be added to your 'todo' list please?
> >>
> >> showkey - which shows what's assigned to a specific pressed key (usually octal,
> >> but could be multi-byte hexidecimal or even a character stream on some keyboards).
> >
> > Modulo x11 getting in the way (it reads this for you and passes on processed
> > data), and serial consoles not providing this info so it almost never coming up
> > anymore (you have to be at a VGA text console to run this). But I remember
> > wandering through the ioctls at some point...
> >
> >> and
> >>
> >> setkey (modified busybox setkeycodes) - matching showkey to allow multi-byte
> >> assignments under a key combination (and not just busybox's single octal, as
> >> with their setkeycodes).
> >
> > I never used this busybox command, but again I've read the ioctls and there was
> > another implementation of this a long time ago I downloaded out of curiosity
> > years and years ago...
> >
> > Ah yes, man 4 console_codes, KDSETKEYCODE from #include <linux/kd.h>
> >
> > Could you send me some example usage for the test suite?
> >
>
> Is there any way of getting around this problem Rob?, as I don't think
> setkey without showkey is going to be able to work properly? showkey
> would be needed to be used to identify the key to be able to have it's
> output changed from the default keypress.
>
> A standard process would be something like>
>
> #showkey <press the wanted key>
> #keypress 61 press
> #keypress 61 release
> #
> #setkey 61 <alt>3geany<ctl>+n
>
> Firstly, You identify the key you want to set a response change for by
> the command showkey and pressing the key.
> Secondly, It replies with two lines, one with the octal for the key
> press and one for the octal for the key release (I vaguely remember that
> once upon a time codes could be different on the old vt terminals so
> both were shown).
> Thirdly, You would assign what you want to happen to the key (in this
> case i've changed desktop windows from whichever i'm in to desktop
> window3, started the Geany text Editor application, and told it to start
> in a new window.
>
> It could just as easily in a logged in terminal to be to start vi,
> filename as date-time, start as insert.
>
> I'm also thinking this could be expanded to even be different in each
> desktop window, (if we were masocastic enough, you could really go mad,)
> so that depending on what's available would depend on what shortcuts
> were available.
>
> Like in my case I usually have four windows available on my General
> Workstation, a - applications running, b - background(ed) tasks, c -
> communications (browser, mail, chat, downloader..., d - diary, working
> task system (tracker while building so I can do a 'step-back' without
> too much trouble, and My Journal. Sort of been this way since year dot
> with me, with individual terminals back at the start.
>
>
> >> O.T. I do miss your aborigonal, I still have a working .pet you helped me setup
> >> from back then. It can still be chroot'd into on our 32bit Puppies.
> >
> > I plan to turn mkroot into a proper full replacement for that, I'm just juggling
> > too many balls. (Today I'm wrestling with shell variable expansion, which is
> > recursive even _before_ you add quoting into it.)
> >
> I understood that was your direction, no pressure, just a bit of
> wishfull thinking out aloud.
>
> I know it's hard, but try to get a few early nights each week, I know
> it's hard, as I am certainly working harder and longer since I retired
> than planned for, and it's not going to get easier until I force myself
> to drop things which i'm reluctant to do as others use what I create.
>
> > Rob
> >
> scsijon
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