Re: Multimedia keys in Woody?

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> What's the best way to get my keyboard's multimedia keys to work in Woody?
>
> I've used Gnome 2.4's media keys applet, but is there something 
> available in 1.4 that can do the same thing?

  depends on what you mean by 'working'

  to make them recognized by X you need to set proper keyboard, e.g. 
for  example a logitech keyboard I have:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Logitech Cordless iTouch"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "logicordless"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

  see /etc/X11/xkb for details, it's fairly easy to create a new 
keyboard if your keyboard is not there, you can often find a similar one 
and just add few missing keys

  you can use xev program to see whether your keys are recognized by X 
(and whether they have keycode (number) and keysym (string, name))

  you can then use various programs to make these keys to do something 
- either your window manager (look for keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys and 
similar in wm docs) or a standalone programs (e.g. xbindkeys)

	erik