> Has anyone looked into why
> echo "alt keycode 103 = Spawn_Console" | loadkeys
> stopped working in 10.2?
>
> I suspect the changes to glibc-solibs did it, because
> ldd /bin/loadkeys
> yields different results in 10.1 and 10.2, but I'm not advanced enough
> to be sure, but I'm curious.

glibc has nothing to do with it.
the command
echo "alt keycode 103 = Spawn_Console" | loadkeys
just tell's the kernel to send a special signal to the init process (pid 1)
when that key (combination) is pressed. So you need to set the init process
to properly handle that signal.

And see some more info here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-a...e-HOWTO-7.html

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damjan