keyboard handling (was Re: OLPC where to go development advice.)

2009-02-02 Thread S Page
Summary: I updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts and several other pages, but mysteries remain. p...@laptop.org usefully responded: I have zero clue where to find the keymapping file or configuration utility.

Re: keyboard handling (was Re: OLPC where to go development advice.)

2009-02-02 Thread pgf
s wrote: Summary: I updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts and several other pages, but mysteries remain. p...@laptop.org usefully responded: I have zero clue where to find the keymapping

Re: keyboard handling (was Re: OLPC where to go development advice.)

2009-02-02 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
It seems that the implementations for volume and brightness keys are handled separately from the remainder of the keyboard in most laptops. I have recently been installing Linux in various older laptops, some with gnome, some with xfce, and have found the laptop special keys scripts in /etc/acpi.

Re: keyboard handling (was Re: OLPC where to go development advice.)

2009-02-02 Thread david
at the OS level the brightness and volume keys are just the standard F9-F12 keys if you look at the 'keyboard shortcuts' page on the wiki they are even documented that way (or at least I think they were at one point) it's Sugar that decides to monkey with the brightness and volume when