This program is a workaround for X11 limitation with 255 keycodes.
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Yeech! The problem with keycodes >255 was first reported in 2007: 

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=x11-keycode-limit

And as of today (may 2010) they still did not fix it. So I wrote
a small utility based on kbd's showkey that reads keycodes and 
uses Xtst to stuff events into X. This hack is ugly as hell and 
needs suid to be able to read /dev/console. Yikes. But there 
is no other easy fix.

Installation
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In Ubuntu Lucid install from rawkeybind ppa and restart X. Otherwise 
download source package from http://www.isaev.ru/rawkeybind and do

./configure && make && sudo make install 

then 

sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/rawkeybind.
echo >> ~/.xsessionrc

and restart X.

Author
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Roman V. Isaev (roman@isaev.ru)
http://www.isaev.ru/rawkeybind
