multimedia keyboard

[Bob Paige <bobman@iname.com>]

I have one of those 'multimedia' keyboards with extra buttons to control 
your CD player, volume, launch applications, etc.

Using xmodmap I have successfully mapped the special keys to XFree86 events:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 229 = XF86Search"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 223 = XF86Standby"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 236 = XF86Mail"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 178 = XF86HomePage"

Then I setup keyboard shortcuts under sawfish in the Gnome Control Center.

The problem is that they don't always work! For example, if I have no 
windows open, they don't work. If I open an xterm, they work. If I'm 
using Mozilla, they work. If I'm doing Java development in Eclipse, they 
don't work.

It seems fairly application-specific, but I expected them to work all 
the time. Is this possible?


- Bobman