key events with HAL and DBUS

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 27. November 2007, Andrej Gelenberg wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> i hase can in hal-0.5.9 get buttonpressevent whith dbus-monitor (i mean
> extra key of my notebook mail, help, next etc.). And now kann i not
> catch this key whith dbus-monitor. I have submitted one patch für my
> Extensa-notebook and can get key with xev, but i wuld it get better with
> dbus-monitor.

HAL set for such extra/multimedia buttons for the unknown scancodes keycodes. 
If you want to get these events, use the X layer as for all other 'normal' 
keyevents.

Danny