Gidday Greg. I have experimented in this field, when I had a compaq keyboard with some extra keys on top.
The upshot is, to do what you want to do, you need to hack the kernel and add support for extra scancodes to the keyboard handler, then when one of those scancodes is generated (as opposed to a normal key) the kernel must either execute a command, or pass a message onto a daemon which does the hard work. The thing I found was called funkey and had a daemon called funkeyd. Here's a thread about the whole thing: AC posted on it too. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.2/0043.html Here's the authors page http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey/ On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:34, G. M. Bodnar wrote: > Hello and good day, > > I'm new to the area, and to this list, but since my normal channels of > information have failed me, I turn to you. > > I'm trying to find a way to bind an application to the keycodes generated > on my laptop (specifically, the volume keys). In X, this is easy, but I'm > not always running X. > > I can map the key codes to a function key, but I can't figure out how to > call a program on that key. > > Thoughts on the issue? > > Thanks, > > Greg > --- -
