On Wednesday 05 September 2001 07:14, Alex Flinsch wrote:
> If you are a KDE user, there is a real simple method to use, just fire up
> kcontrol, and go into the keybindings section under LookNFeel menu. From
> there you can set keys to be used for window manager operations. I have my
> "windows" key set to bring up the K-Start menu just like it would do under
> Windows. If I ever replace my keyboard with something that has extra
> buttons, I will be sure to remember these links.
In the keybindings section of the KDE control panel, you can only assign
keys that are already mapped. You can map scancodes for other keys.
Mandrake 8.0 uses xkb--in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I see options setting
XkbRules to xfree86, and XkbModel to pc105. Unfortunately, I can't find
any good documentation on xkb.
I tried to figure out what scancodes some of the extra keys on my
keyboard generate (I have a Logitech Internet Keyboard), but showkey -s
on a console gives me output I cannot fathom. With regular keys I get
four bytes as expected. For instance, pressing "A" generates 1e-9e.
But when I press the left Windows key, I get e0-2a-e0-5b-e0-db-e0-aa.
Now, according to what I've read this key should generate e0-5b.
I'm going to read the Linux keyboard howto and see what I can learn.
And if anyone's interested, I'll tell you what I find out!
Cheers,
--krishna
