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07-09-2010, 06:03 AM	#1
Glenn D. Member Registered: May 2009 Location: ACT - Australia Distribution: Opensuse x86_64 (Latest) Posts: 132 Rep:	how to detect a key press from a keyboard hello, how do you detect a key press from a keyboard so if no-one types anything in an hour for example you shut the pc down with init 0. Thanks Glenn

07-09-2010, 12:46 PM	#2
pljvaldez LQ Guru Registered: Dec 2005 Location: Somewhere on the String Distribution: Debian Wheezy (x86) Posts: 6,094 Rep:	I know from a terminal you can monitor key strokes with xev, but I'm not sure if X interacts the same way. Maybe key-mon? Last edited by pljvaldez; 07-09-2010 at 12:47 PM.

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