Read the message in the front page of the keyTouch website and you will find out why. And I advise you to try to use keyTouch. BTW Lineak supports 90 keyboard models, but many keyboard models in the list of Lineak are the same. Because keytouch-editor (the application for creating keyboard files) asks the user to send the created keyboard file to me, I receive a lot of keyboard files from the users. At the moment I have 68 unread messages containing keyboard files in my mailbox. I have also written a patch to improve the USB keyboard drivers. This patch will be included in the Linux kernel. As soon as the patch is included I will write a new version of keyTouch that will make it possible to get all the extra function keys of USB keyboards working (just like I did with the other types of keyboards).
Check out this graph: http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/graph/detail-graph.php?group_id=111201&ugn=keytouch&type=prdownload&mode=alltime&package_id=120159&release_id=0&graph=1 In september 2005 I released version 2.0.0 beta and as you can see after that release, the number of downloads increased a lot. So why is version 2 much more populair than version 1? That's because version did much like the same as Lineak. Version 2 does more and it allows you to get all your extra function keys working under kernel 2.6. Please take a look at the website for more information. - Marvin Raaijmakers On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:39 -0500, Rob Hughes wrote: > 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
