Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?

Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by arghwhat on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:47PM (#27191073)

That's exactly what the compatibility is for. Tools that work in the absence of anything advanced, with nothing but a few escape codes to "draw".

Otherwise it wouldn't work on the kernel console (the only thing available without a GUI installed), over SSH, over serial links, even still on dedicated terminals and teletypes.

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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by _jal on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:29AM (#27195969)

Terminal is still a first-class UI mode, not some fallback.

If some tooling doesn't work for us (which means over a terminal), then we don't consider it. If something doesn't expose functionality over a terminal, that functionality doesn't exist.

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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by arghwhat on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @08:13AM (#27207496)

Sure, it's a first class UI mode from the 70's, which is extremely useful. Any development of it would be in direct conflict with its qualities.

> If some tooling doesn't work for us (which means over a terminal), then we don't consider it.

Who is "we"? Even the most die-hard TUI fan uses them through a GUI terminal emulator, making that argument fall entirely apart.

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