Custom Laptop Buttons

[Maffuster]

I'm just wondering how I go about starting to get my laptop's custom buttons to work. As far as I can see there's no ebuild OR information out there on them. I know that if I'm asking, it doesn't provide much hope that I'll be able to ever get them working, but I'd love to take a stab at it.

For reference, I've got a Fujistu C2240 Lifebook.

Thanks!

-Matt

[geyser]

The first part of a solution to your problem is to use the xev command under X. I assume you want the keys to do something in X. On my fancy keyboard I get this sort of xev response for the key with a little home picture:

KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
root 0x43, subw 0x1400002, time 259245900, (49,31), root:(387,320),
state 0x0, keycode 130 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
root 0x43, subw 0x1400002, time 259246060, (49,31), root:(387,320),
state 0x0, keycode 130 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

So keycode 130 is the one I would map to take my browser to my home page.

The second part is to map the keycode. I haven't' looked into the more recent tools to do this but I just saw xkbevd and it looks interesting. The original tool to check is xmodmap. Hopefully this will get you going.

[Maffuster]

Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.

I searched around, and found some information on the IBM laptops, and their special buttons, but that method didn't do anything for me (looking at the contents of /dev/nvram)

Thanks again!