Thinkpad special cursor buttons

[Malcolm Cowe]

Tim,

If you search through the archives for this list, you'll come across a 
post I made on how to configure the Macintosh keyboard using XKB. The 
same principles apply to any keyboard layout. Have a look at:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg03199.html

for an outline of the process.

Regards,

Malcolm.

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Message: 17
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:34:19 +0100
From: Tim Niemueller <gmane at niemueller.de>
Subject: Thinkpad special cursor buttons
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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Hi.

I could not find this in the archives. If I missed it please point me in
the right direction.

I have played with this now a couple of weeks and it just does not work.

What I want to do: There are two special keys on newer IBM Thinkpads
(here it is a T41p). I want to use them for "next desktop" and "previous
desktop". For some information and a foto see
http://snarfed.org/space/thinkpad+keys+in+firefox

So I tried to do it the xmodmap way. And I thought it worked. But it
only works exactly one time. For another time you have to completely
restart X. The new Gnome informs you that it ignores ~/.Xmodmap, so I
tried to load it via the session management of Gnome. No chance. No
matter with which priority it started the settings got screwed.
I have also tried to mess with xkb but it seems I didn't tweak the right
files...

Has anybody done this and can tell how to get these keys working in FC3?

Thanx,

	Tim

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