[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev: Add keyboard leds helper app

[Frank Murphy]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:01:20 +0100
Carlos Garnacho <carlosg at gnome.org> wrote:

> Hey Lennart :),
> 
> On vie, 2014-01-17 at 12:04 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Fri, 17.01.14 12:01, Carlos Garnacho (carlosg at gnome.org) wrote:
> > 
> > > This helper program checks the leds available on keyboard devices
> > > and exports these as list of keywords in the
> > > ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD_LEDS property. The new .rule ensures this
> > > helper program runs at the time any keyboard is detected/plugged.
> > 
> > What's the usecase for this?
> 
> Complementing this code, I've got a gnome-settings-daemon patch to
> show an OSD to hint about *Lock keys being pressed when the keyboard
> in question does not have leds to tell so. The laptop I got recently
> has none, and it buggers me when I start yelling without noticing.
> 
>

May be Gnome has something similar?
yum info xfce4-kbdleds-plugin
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Frank 
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