[:/Discussion:Discussion]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: FalseTry 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
Choose a name in /ur/share/X11/XKeysymDB. Note that xmodmap manual refer to /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, but it's wrong on my Debian Etch open a bug ?
- For example:
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 145 = XF86AudioNext keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop keycode 237 = XF86HomePage
- To apply that, run:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
Autostart for KDE
- To load your change at startup, create a file ~/.kde/Autostart/xmodmap.sh:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
- File must be executable
chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/xmodmap.sh
Assign action on your keys
Under KDE
Input Action
- Go to
K > Configuration > Regional & Accessibility > Input Action
- Create new group called "Multimedia"
- Create new action
Global shortcut
In all application supporting DCOP calls, you can assign your multimedia as short key. It's a very powerful feature.
Example with Kmix:
Open K > Multimedia > Kmix sound mixer
- Show Mixer Window
Go to Setting > Configure Global Shortcuts...
Work in progress:
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