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ShadyMilkman
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 Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 11:28 pm Post subject: xmodmap questions |
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Well, I'm trying to get the extra keys on my keyboard to actually do something (It's a yahoo keyboard, there aren't any defs for it in xf86config). So I figured out the keycodes of the keys I want(they're approx 150 and up) using xev, and I've been trying to figure out what to do. I traced it down to xmodmap -e "keycode x = KEYSYMNAME" but as far as I can tell there's no way to define a new key "name" that I could use, say in ~/.fluxbox/keys
Does anybody have any experience or could tell me how to do this? Thanks.
P.S., my windoze key doesn't work as mod4, maybe you know what's wrong there too? |
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Curious
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| Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 11:41 pm Post subject: Re: xmodmap questions |
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| ShadyMilkman wrote: | | Well, I'm trying to get the extra keys on my keyboard to actually do something.. |
I don't know how to do this ( sorry ), but in the meantime you might find this useful:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~syrjala/xmms-itouch/
( Yes, that's me in the changelog.  )
It is an XMMS plugin, but you can map it to do arbitary things / run arbitary commands when you press arbitary keys. Might help tide you over until you solve this problem?
-- Curious.
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Carlos
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 2:10 am Post subject: |
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Getting your Windows key working as mod4 shouldn't be too hard; here's the relevant bit from my.Xmodmap:
| Code: | keycode 116 = Meta_L
keycode 115 = Meta_L
add Mod4 = Meta_L |
You should substitute, of course, the keycodes for your two Windows keys for 116 and 115, although there's a good chance that they'll be the same. You'll probably want to check out The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO, especially sections 13-15, which are about X, as well as the man page for xmodmap; that's how I figured out how to get mod4 working. I guess an alternative to figuring out how to define new keysyms would be to find unused ones, but I don't really know where to find that info. If you figure out what to do can you tell us? I'm curious too. |
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Ard Righ
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 4:41 am Post subject: |
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While on the topic of keyboards, can anyone point me to settings to use all of the keyboard on the Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard.
I would think there would be a keymap for it somewhere already, but I can't find it.
Also, do any of the 'multimedia' keys on the Microsoft keyboards work, or do I need extra software to use those for XMMS etc ? |
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Ard Righ
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 8:28 am Post subject: |
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Someone in another forum posted a link to this "lineak" software which might do the trick.
lineak |
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maKKus
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 8:52 am Post subject: |
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I can confirm that lineak works great for those special keys on many keyboards, I've a logitech internet keyboard, and use the special keys for xmms control, starting file search (gnome file-searcher), email (evolution) and browser (Mozilla, waiting for galeon2).
http://lineak.sourceforge.net/
No ebuild but it compiles without trouble. |
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kybber
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Location: Trondheim, Norway
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 8:56 am Post subject: |
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An alternative to lineak which uses osd:
| Code: | emerge -s hotkeys
Searching...
[ Results for search key : hotkeys ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* x11-misc/hotkeys
Latest version available: 0.5.4
Latest version installed: 0.5.4
Homepage: http://ypwong.org/hotkeys/
Description: Make use of extra buttons on newer keyboards.
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ShadyMilkman
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| OK well I got my Mod4 working by adding the xmodmap -e commands to my .xinitrc, but the other things don't have support for my KB. Anyway, I've learned some more, and I'm perfectly happy not touching those keys on the top. |
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