Question to keyboard special keys / logitech ex 110

saphear · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 34

Hello together,

I wonder if someone can help get the special keys of my Logitech Cordless Desktop Ex 110 working the way I want it

here is what I want:
The keyboard got 12 special keys, most of them shown as multimedia keys like "start/pause", "stop", "forward" "backward" etc..thats mostly the purpose I want to use them for.

With xev I collected the keycodes, except for one key all seem to be recognized. Now I want them to use as a global shortcut in amarok, but don't know how to do that.

How do I tell amarok what key it is?

Same problem with "mute" / "unmute" toggeling and "volume up" "volume down"...

can someone tell me where to go from here?

thanks
cheers

saphear · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 34

hmm k...tried a non logitech ex 110 specific search and found:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys

sorry for the trouble. but there is another problem now:

my xmodmap tells me:

absoluteflatness · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:54 am Post subject:

That message is complaining about your "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7" line. Basically, it's saying it detected 11 buttons on your mouse, and you only specified 11. Even if your mouse doesn't have 11 buttons, X sometimes detects more.

You can fix this in one of two (or three) ways.

1. replace the pointer line with "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11". This will specify each of the 11 buttons.

2. remove the pointer line altogether. The only point of having a "pointer =" statement in Xmodmap is if you're trying to re-arrange your mouse buttons. Obviously, you aren't, because you've specified your buttons in their normal order, so removing the line should be harmless.

3. just ignore the xmodmap error. It won't do any harm, it's just letting you know that buttons 8-11 are being left as they were.