It's a little off-topic, but, the orginial request was made on this list and several people were interested in it. So, I created it. It's called babytouch and you can get it at http://members.accesstoledo.com/patterson. It's only available as source so you'll need C and SDL development stuff to compile it. Runs fullscreen!
Scott >I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 >month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or >sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > >Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be >re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by >making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. > >Thanks in anticipation
