John, You can map those "new" keys to run anything. you can write a script that simply contains
shutdown -h now and when you hit that key it'll run the that script shutting your machine down. if you want something neat and graphical, take a look at gnomedialog (i think that's the name) it'll allow you to creat simple scripts that pop up a dialogue box that has either buttons or an input field and you can have it execute commands for you. Alex ------------------------------------ Hi all, On quite a few keyboards these days there are extra keys. One of which is the power button. How would I get the power button working? =20 I read the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO but as far as I could follow, the only examples were for mapping new keys to existing functions (next terminal, etc) =20 Anyway, how about adding support for the power button? =20 I was thinking that one way of doing it would be to write a kde/gnome app that popped up when you first pressed it and asks you to confirm that it is indeed the power button, and whether to shutdown/reboot/custom. =20 On my huge sample of er 3 different keyboards, the power button generates the same scancode (e0 5e or something - can't remember heh) =20 Anyway, thoughts please? =20 JohnFlux =20 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
