For the sake of google and anyone out there playing with media keys on their keyboards, I am posting my experiences.
I got the volume keys working by selecting the Dell inspiron keyboard layout from the KDE System Settings -> Regional and Accessability -> Keyboard layout I thought I had used the Laptop presario option (I have a Presario V2000), but I don't care as long as it works. I was unable to get the GUI utility suggested by Aaron to recognize my KDE installation (kubuntu, I am used to having to manually pointing configure scripts to lib locations in Debian and its relatives). Even still, armed with the keycodes (used xev, which was usefull for mapping the buttons on my logitech MX510) I was unable to get lineakd to control the volume, though I was able to map application shortcuts to them. There is still lots to learn, though I have to say I like the ability to map these keys to just about anything I like, in all of this I finally have the extra buttons on my mouse doing something usefull, I also managed to enable the horizontal scroll area on the touchpad (xorg.conf). Actually this rambling is starting to look like it would make a couple of good posts on the newbie site. I suppose I should get busy. On Thursday 06 October 2005 19:09, Gustin Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 04 October 2005 11:09, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Monday 03 October 2005 20:44, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > > Weirdly the volume slider stopped working on both my laptop and the > > > bluetooth keyboard shortly thereafter, but the mute button works fine > > > on both. > > > > this has less to do with which version of kde you are using and more to > > do with what operating system you are using as they tend to offer > > slightly different means for supporting hardware such as this. > > > > for special keyboard buttons there are various means of accomplishing > > this such as lineak (use klineakconfig to configure it) ... you can also > > go the long route and map the keys in Xmodmap and then bind them to > > actions using khotkeys. really depends on your OS, as i said. > > I am unable to build klineakconfig, the configure script fails with this > message: > > checking for KDE... configure: error: > in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE libraries installed. This will > fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! > > I ran ./configure --prefix=/usr > > running kde-config --prefix returns > /usr > > Using the debian tools (this is a kubuntu install btw) to search for > kdelibs: > > kdelibs is already the newest version. > kdelibs-bin is already the newest version. > kdelibs-data is already the newest version. > kdelibs4-dev is already the newest version. > kdelibs4-doc is already the newest version. > kdelibs4c2 is already the newest version. > kde is already the newest version. > kdelibs3-bin is already the newest version. > kdelibs4c2-dbg is already the newest version. > > I am not sure how familiar you are with Debian and Ubuntu (or anyone else > on this list for that matter), but I suspect I am either missing a package > or the configure script needs to be fixed (ie. it needs me to perform some > surgery so that it finds what it is looking for) > > Thanks for your help thus far.
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