Enrico Weigelt:
> On 01.07.2016 12:13, Adam Borowski wrote:
...
> > There's a bug in evdev: normally, when a process listens to cooked events
> > (keyboard, etc), they get delivered only when the right VT is active. Not
> > so much with raw events: once a process gets hold of such a device, it will
> > receive events even when VT was switched.
>
> What's the exact difference between cooked and raw events ?
...

Since it is a terminal, probably this:

$ man stty | grep -A1 cooked
       cooked same as brkint ignpar istrip icrnl ixon opost isig icanon, eof and eol characters to their default values

       -cooked
              same as raw
--
       -raw   same as cooked

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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