Re: Logitech iTouch Multimediakeys

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: 20 Dec 2004 19:38:40 GMT

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:46:15 +0100, Berend Veldkamp staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> MyMommaToldMe wrote:
>> I have an HP keyboard with "multimedia keys" and not all of them were
>> recognized by X or at the console. I had to use showkey(1) and
>> setkeycodes(8) to get anything to recognize the last few. Reading the
>> man pages for those commands should get you going. Also, I believe X
>> needs to be restarted after using setkeycodes to add a new key code
>> (that xev and X will recognize) for a keyboard scan code.
> Thanks, I had already given up, but this was the answer! Now, is
> there a "best place" to put setkeycodes, rc.local? (on Fedora Core 3).
> And is there some kind of standard as to which keycode to choose?

You might as well run this at boot time. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a
perfectly good place to put the setkeycodes commands if you're running a
Redhat-derived distro. There's really no standard that I know of for
choosing keycodes, though you will want to pick keycodes that aren't in
use by any other keys. You can use xbindkeys (or your window manager's
key-binding utility--xbindkeys is more general) to make your multimedia
keys execute any action you can think of once these keys are generating
keycodes. HTH, 

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