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Old 02-23-2009, 11:47 AM   #1
Arancaytar
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Help me log keystrokes on my USB keyboard?


While using Windows, I have been recording and archiving my keyboard activity for the past six years. This is extremely important to avoid losing unsaved typed text or for recalling historical information (when exactly I wrote something) as I'm lousy at record-keeping. For this, I used a primitive but robust tool named HomeKeyLogger, which unfortunately is limited to Windows.

Now that I'm in the process of switching to Ubuntu, I have searched around for a program that will log my keystrokes in Linux as well. Trying and discarding LKL (didn't log at all, even after finding the keymaps), I experimented with Uberkey. This one is actually neat, but it only captures my internal laptop keyboard, and not the USB keyboard. I hardly ever use the internal keyboard, so that is not useful.

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I see that Uberkey hard-codes some (interrupt?) addresses like 0x64 and 0x60. Now I'm wondering if I can simply change these addresses to the USB keyboard - I've never coded on such a low level before, so I don't know how the hardware interfaces work. Do I have any hope there, or should I use something else? And if so, what software will allow me to log my USB keyboard? Perhaps I can even run the Windows HKL on Wine, but I suspect it can only access the hardware when running natively.

Thank you so much!
 
Old 03-04-2009, 05:11 PM   #2
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Any update?

I'd really appreciate some help with this. If someone here can just tell me how to find the device paths of my keyboards, I could write my own script using interceptty, but I'm completely stuck. I've had to switch back to Windows for the time being, which is quite a pity.
 
  


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