On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stefan G. Weichinger
squawked:
> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
>
> > I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my.
> > At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-)
> >
> > It ain't that important although I would like to see them working, it's
> > a bit hard to understand that issues like this don't just work as well.
>
> Just to point that out: I am still interested in a solution if anyone ....
I have an Acer multimedia keyboard. I use xbindkeys to set the actions
related to multimedia keys.
Below is a snip of my .xbindkeysrc
---------------------rc------------------
"amixer sset Headphone 1-"
m:0x0 + c:174
"amixer sset Headphone 1+"
m:0x0 + c:176
"amixer sset Headphone toggle"
m:0x0 + c:160
"mpc stop"
m:0x0 + c:164
"mpc toggle"
m:0x0 + c:162
"mpc prev"
m:0x0 + c:144
"mpc next"
m:0x0 + c:153
"mpc repeat"
m:0x4 + c:144
"mpc random"
m:0x4 + c:153
"xscreensaver-command -lock"
m:0x0 + c:223
"rxvt -T 'Mutt' -e /usr/bin/mutt"
m:0x0 + c:236
"/usr/local/bin/crxvt -T 'cMutt' -e /usr/bin/mutt"
m:0x4 + c:236
"/usr/local/bin/jrxvt -T 'jMutt' -e /usr/bin/mutt"
m:0x8 + c:236
------------------------------end rc-------------------
As you can see, keycodes 174 annd 176 are volumes up and down,
160 is the mute button, 164, 162 are stop and play/pause, 144
and 153 are REW and FF, which I doubled up with meta keys to
get other features. 223 is the "screen saver" key. And 236 is
the "e-mail" key.
I've quite forgotten how I found these keycodes. But some of them
are quasi standard (I've seen the codes for volume and music player
work on other keyboards, including Dell laptops).
On my old laptop I used to use a different solution: I think I mapped
the appropriate keycodes to the XF86VolumeUp and similar keys and then
mapped those key events using the WM.
I can try to dig out the old config if you'd like.
HTH,
W
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