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Liangxu Linux
Dec 7, 2024 · Fundamentals

How Does a Keystroke Travel From Keyboard to Your Screen?

This article explains step‑by‑step how a key press is detected by the keyboard controller, generates an interrupt, is handled by the kernel driver, written to a device file, and finally delivered to an X Window client via IPC.

IPCKeyboardOS fundamentals
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How Does a Keystroke Travel From Keyboard to Your Screen?