Daniel seems to have issues to detect whether a key is pressed on linux outside of an event loop: Article in French: http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2006/01/13/1496-un-truc-qui-me-gave-gravement Basically he writes a code block that should do what he wants but: "Mais ça, qui semble être la seule manière de faire, NE MARCHE PAS parce que X bloque l'accès non-root à /dev/tty ou /dev/console" translates to "This, which seems to be the only way to achieve my goals, doesn't work because X block non-root access to /dev/tty or /dev/console." Anyone has an idea on how to solve this? Jerome -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/