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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:44:10 -0400
From: John Covici <covici@....covici.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@...ux-speakup.org>
Cc: Gregory Nowak <greg@...gn.net>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
Simon Dickson <simonhdickson@...il.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [HELP REQUESTED from the community] Was: Staging status of speakup
I think the program is genmap, I have it in my init sequence, but I
am not sure it does anything at this point.
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:04:07 -0400,
Chris Brannon wrote:
>
> Gregory Nowak <greg@...gn.net> writes:
>
> > keymap
> > I believe this is the currently active kernel keymap. I'm not sure of
> > the format, probably what dumpkeys(1) and showkey(1) use. Echoing
> > different values here should allow for remapping speakup's review
> > commands besides remapping the keyboard as a whole.
>
> AFAIK the Speakup keymap is just for remapping keys to Speakup
> functions. It's a binary format, not related to dumpkeys etc. You need
> a special program to compile a textual keymap into something that can be
> loaded into /sys/accessibility/speakup/keymap. I may have source for
> that lying around here somewhere. This is "here there be dragons"
> territory. I think the only specification of the format is in the
> source code.
>
> -- Chris
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