To day, lot of keyboard have additional keys. Here, we show how to use them. This article is based on this very VERY good [http://www.lea-linux.org/cached/index/Hardware-hard_autres-clavier_multimedia.html Léa Linux How-To]

Indentify keys

• Open a console

• run xev (xbase-clients)

• Search "keycode". in this example, it's 160

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
    root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 3864774064, (-249,385), root:(429,410),
    state 0x0, keycode 160 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Try and note all multimedia keys

Keys naming

Here we're going use xmodmap to modify keymaps and insert our multimedia keys.

• Create a new text file name ~/.xmodmaprc

• This file is define like this:

keycode YOUR_KEYCODE = YOUR_NAME

• For example:

keycode 160 = MediaSoundMute
keycode 174 = MediaSoundDown
keycode 176 = MediaSoundUp
keycode 162 = MediaPlay
keycode 144 = MediaPrevious
keycode 145 = MediaNext
keycode 164 = MediaStop
keycode 237 = MediaHome

Work in progress:

• http://www.linux-france.org/~qliu/programmer-touche.html

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