Application for keyboard codes

[Steve]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:42:51 -0000, James Michael Fultz  
<croooow at gmail.com> wrote:

> * Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> [2009-12-30 22:26 -0000]:
>> I’m looking for an application that tells you the codes of the keys you
>> when you press them.  I know  it’s there somewhere but google has thrown
>> nothing up.
>
> xev will do it but needs to be started from a terminal so that the
> resulting report on stdout will be visible.
>
Thanks chaps, the very thing I was looking for.
I now know I have a faulty Alt key! which is why I can’t get to the VTs.

-- 
Steve