go-linuxkeyboard

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LinuxKeyboard

About

This is alpha quality. It's probably not usable for consumption, but might be helpful.

This is a pure Go library that can be used to send/recieve data from a keyboard device in Linux. Besides being able to read/write raw key events, it has some additional helper functions for translating these raw key events into the character to be displayed.

It uses a /dev/input/eventX character special device representing a keyboard directly. No libevdev or other dependancies.

Limitations

• To use this library, your program will need to run with root privileges. This is a requirement of accessing /dev/input/eventX devices.

References

• Linux Input Subsystem kernel documentation
• Linux input event codes
• X11 keysym definitions