Hi, is there an easy way to get the keys on multi-media keyboards to
work. For example sleep buttons, volume dials, application launch
buttons, and cd controls. The programs that I have seen for this have
been very poor and difficult to set up.
Linux would be particularly well suited for taking advantage of these
buttons. I remember when I first installed Mandrake on my old Hewlett
Packard I was so excited to get real customizable functionality out of
those buttons, only to find that they didn't work at all.
This is an official request/wish:
It would be wonderful Mandrake could figure out an *easy* way to set up
these buttons and customize them. Perhaps similarly to the way that
mousedrake let's you test your mouse buttons. Press one button, give it
an arbitary name and it let's you customize it. Would you like to
customize another key? Press which key/button you would like to
customize and assign a value to it.
It's almost impossible to find keyboards without these buttons anyway
nowadays. I was looking at a pretty black IBM (since they are
supposedly Linux friendly) keyboard, the Rapid Access keyboard, the only
black one they have in stores in my area. And to get buttons working on
even that one would mean downloading a kernel patch some user wrote and
recompiling the kernel.
Ok, i know whaat I'm asking is probably not as easy as it sounds, but
it's those sorts of touches that really go a long way.
Thank you.
- Paul Rodriguez
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