On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:09 +0200, Marvin Raaijmakers wrote: > Like I wrote a time ago, I think keyTouch (http://keytouch.sf.net/) will > be a very usefull for Ubuntu on laptops to get the extra function keys > (or hotkeys as they are called by you) working. Not only for laptops but > also for desktops with keyboards that have extra function keys. > KeyTouch does the setkeycodes stuff, has its own key grabbing deamon a > nice GUI for configuring the actions and does also support ACPI hotkeys. > It currently supports 79 different keyboard/laptop models. > Even if the Ubuntu laptop testing team isn't interested in using > keyTouch for the hotkeys problem, information about the laptop keys > might still be interesting. KeyTouch has for each laptop/keyboard model > a keyboard file that contains information about the extra function keys. > See the keyTouch website for more information about keyTouch, the > keyboard files and find out how easy keyboard files are made by using > keyTouch-editor. > > - Marvin Raaijmakers > >
Why not go with lineak? It has support for a lot more keyboards, also handles set keycodes, has a GUI to configure it, and support different keystrokes for different multimedia apps in the same same configuration. -- Thank you for supporting me in the Livestrong Challenge! Please make your tax deductible donation at http://www.livestrongchallenge.org/06TX/roberthughes -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
