Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:37:19PM -0600, Hani Duwaik wrote: I use xbindkeys. Executing: xbindkeys -mk should allow you to see what key sequence the special keys are mapped to (and then use them in your '.xbindkeysrc' file to execute commands/apps). HTH, -Hani neat! thanks. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 17:42 -0400, ««Omega21»» wrote: Hi there. I have a Toshiba A70 here, and it has some nice media buttons on the left, and I really want them to work on Linux. I have tried a lot. I have tried xev with no success, and emerged linEAK and it wasn't able to detect them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-01 Thread Ryan
It is possible that the keys dont actually do anything other than for example C-A-S-F1 (Control Alt Shift F1). I have had a couple keyboards that were like this. There is nothing to detect unless the key is hit. One example is a Yahoo Keyboard. I figured this out one day while I was playing

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-01 Thread Ian K
Pupeno wrote: What I do to get the media buttons of my crappy Logithec keyboard to work is select one of the options that are a Logithec keyboard for the configuration of X (instead of us or us_intl). An easy way to do that is launch Kcontrol and play whith its settings untill you get it to