Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

[Tony Nelson <tonynelson@georgeanelson.com>]

On 09-12-08 17:05:39, Wayne wrote:
> 
> From: roberto <roberto03@gmail.com>
 ...
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Wayne <linuxtwo@gmail.com> wrote:
 ...
> > Have you checked out the console-tools package?
> >
> > The showkey program for instance.
> 
> yes and i get
> ~$ showkey
> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> 
>  From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the 
> console-tools package installed.  The showkeys program is in that 
> package.  If you need to figure out how/what it is for, I suggest you 
> try reading the man page.

I got the same message (on Fedora 12) when running as a normal user.  
It works when run as root.

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