Re: Logitech iTouch Multimediakeys

From: Berend Veldkamp (berend.veldkamp_at_aris.nl)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:09:56 +0100

Dances With Crows wrote:

> 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,
>

Thanks, I already got that last part working using IceWM's keybindings,
but I'll have a look at xbindkeys anyway, since it's more general.

Berend

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