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Re: programable buttons




--- Blu <blu@chilesat.net> wrote:
> Trevor Reed wrote:
> > 
> > I have a Compaq Armada 4130T with debian
> installed.  I have X working
> > perfectly, but I haven't tried sound yet.  I have
> also not been able to find
> > out anything about the programmable buttons. 
> Other than that, i is really
> > great!!
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> About the programmable buttons, they are just like
> regular keys. There
> is a little program which shows you the codes
> returned when you press a
> key (I don't remember the name). You could use it to
> get the keycodes of
> the buttons and then bind them to whatever action
> you want.
> 
> Blu.

The program is "showkeys". As for making it a macro,
the only really free-form way I found was binding a
key to Keyboard_Signal and then defining the action in
inittab. Unfortunately, this limits to one
user-defined key. Has anyone else figured out a better
way to do this stuff?
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