Re: MS internet keyboard

[Known Human Nick Rusnov <nick@grawk.net>]

>Lo, on Sunday, February 4, Romain Lerallut did write:
>
>> Good evening everyone,
>> 
>> I'd like to use the wart-like "special keys" that came with my (ahem) MS
>> "internet keyboard", with X and if possible, with the console.
>
><SNIP>

Maybe not quite as helpful but I recently discovered that XFree 4 has support
for several 'internet' keyboards.

If you are running XFree 4, you can set which keyboard you're using in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4.. in the section InputDevice for your keyboard:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "logicordless"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection


Notice the XkbModel (in my case a logitech cordless). All the keys seem to have
appropriate names (eg the little homepage button is XF86Home). I was so pleased
to be able to control XMMS from the little multimedia keys. :-)

The list of models is in /usr/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86

If you're running XFree 3, then the previous poster's info may be of more help
(I'm not sure if XFree 3 had as comprehensive Xkb support?)

HTH.
as always,
nick
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