Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?
by fl0wenol on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:59PM
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In retrospect, thinking about the end problem, he really should have written a custom front-end that used SSH (or TLS) and a custom protocol to remotely send input and receive telemetry, as most term emus don't support this kind of behavior. It could still be a TUI, but it'd be local and use evdev. What'd be nice is then you could actually use a joystick if you had one ^_^
>In my case, the goal was to remotely navigate a robot over an SSH connection using the 'w', 'a', 's', 'd' keys. Real-time tasks like this require extremely high responsiveness to key events for palatable performance.
Yeah, I don't think a SSH connection is the right tool either, but there's the answer (and basically the entire article follows from that).