Using laptop "special" buttons in X
Rick Wagner
wagnerric at condor.cxo.cpqcorp.net
Thu Dec 16 22:59:50 UTC 2004
Thanks Wayne,
I'll check it out on my laptop. I'm a little concerned, because lineak seems
to want X generated keycodes, but xev does not respond to my special keys.
I'll dig into more though.
--rick
On Thursday 16 December 2004 3:46 pm, Wayne Leutwyler wrote:
> Rick Wagner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My laptop has several special function keys, which I would like to assign
> > as actions in KDE. When I press the keys, I get a message on the text
> > console to the effect of (sorry, I don't have the exact text, but this
> > should be close enough): "Undefined keyboard scancode 65, use setkeycodes
> > to assign."
> >
> > man setkeycodes says: "The keycodes of X have nothing to do with
> > those of Linux...", so it sounds like setkeycodes won't get my keys to X.
> > How do I assign scancodes to an X keycode, and how do I find an unused
> > keycode I can assign it to? Once I have X seeing the keys, it should be
> > no differant than assigning any other key in KDE.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --rick
>
> Check out this site: http://lineak.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> Wayne Leutwyler - RHCT, CNA
> Linux Admin / DBA
> Columbus OH. USA
> http://linux.is-a-geek.net
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