On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:21:49PM +0200, Leo wrote:
> I was wondering a similar question.
>
> There are many keys in my laptop with "NoSymbol", for example the
> "Volume Up" key is:
>
> KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
> root 0x59, subw 0x0, time 3072717986, (-333,367), root:(639,399),
> state 0x0, keycode 176 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> XFilterEvent returns: False
>
> Is it possible to bind those keys to something?
I had the same problem a few days ago. You can use xmodmap to remap as
follows. First find a keysym name to assign to these keys. Try doing
grep -i audio /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB
On my system this gives
SunAudioLowerVolume :1005FF77
SunAudioMute :1005FF78
SunAudioRaiseVolume :1005FF79
XF86AudioLowerVolume :1008FF11
XF86AudioMute :1008FF12
XF86AudioRaiseVolume :1008FF13
XF86AudioPlay :1008FF14
XF86AudioStop :1008FF15
XF86AudioPrev :1008FF16
XF86AudioNext :1008FF17
XF86AudioRecord :1008FF1C
XF86AudioPause :1008FF31
XF86AudioMedia :1008FF32
XF86AudioRewind :1008FF3E
Then find keycodes using Xev as you did above. Once you have them, put
the following in ~/.xmodmaprc
! Map function keys on laptop
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
(Obviously replace the keycodes I have above with the ones on your
system). Do
xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
on fvwm startup. Finally, I have in my fvwm bindings
key XF86AudioMute A N Exec exec amixer -q set Master toggle
key XF86AudioRaiseVolume A N Exec exec amixer -q set Master 2+
key XF86AudioLowerVolume A N Exec exec amixer -q set Master 2-
The only thing I am unhappy about is that the above just increases /
decreases the volume, and gives you no confirmation or indication of
what the volume is. I wouldn't mind a volume slider, like on my TV. Xosd
has a nice volume slider, but that involves me writing a script that
gets the current volume and feeds it to xosd.
Should you, or anyone else on the list, know of a script / application
that was designed for this purpose, let me know :)
GI
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