Those little extra buttons on laptops

mtombs

Hi,

I've got a gateway solo 9300 and its got little extra buttons (you know the sort - launch a web browser, adjust the volume, etc.) Is there any way to get them to do anything under Linux? Its not life or death or anything, just curious.

/mark

curtis119 · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject:

I use Gnome and the multi-media keys applet drives all the extra buttons with the exception of the volume control. Only because I use straight ALSA with no OSS emulation (no /dev/mixer) and I don't use ESD either because my sound card has hardware mixing. Other than that it works great.
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meowsqueak · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:25 pm Post subject:

You might be able to get these working with 'hotkeys'. I use this on my multimedia keyboard (not a laptop) and it works perfectly.

You can also use 'xev' to see what keycodes these keys are generating. If you put your mouse cursor in the xev window and hit a key and nothing appears in the terminal you launched xev from, then XFree86 can't recognise that key. If it can, great - hotkeys will do the rest.

Or use the Gnome method if that's easier - but I don't know anything about that.

MADcow · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:35 am Post subject: