On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:52:56PM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote: > My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. > How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed?
That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console). First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). How you can bind keypresses to commands in X depends on the window manager or desktop environment you are using. See the revelant documentation. On my laptop (centrino 2 platform, PM 45 chipset), using Fn combination works to change speaker volume and screen brightness, but this is done outside the OS. The X server doesn't even 'see' those keypresses. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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