Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can
>> connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones.
>> This works fine to the extent that I can hear the audio out and it can
>> grab the audio from the microphone, but what about the buttons
>> (typically used to increase/decrease volume and stop/play music)?
>> How can I capture those events to make them do something useful?
> Do the events "arrive" somewhere in the Big Software Stack [1] ?

I wish I knew.

> To stick the fork into a random point: what does xev say?

It stays desperately silent when I press those buttons (tho it is as
chatty as usual when I move the mouse or hit keyboard keys, of course).


        Stefan