Re: acme package - experiences

[Praveen Kallakuri <praveen@neb.rr.com>]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:40:39 +0200, Olivier Robert wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:20:35AM -0500, Praveen Kallakuri wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:46:58 +0200, Olivier Robert wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package.
>> > The packege description is:
>> > 
>> > acme - Enables the "multimedia buttons" found on laptopsacme - Enables
>> > the "multimedia buttons" found on laptops
>> > 
>> > I have a Compaq 1800-18XL484 with those funny multimedia buttons which
>> > xev does not see ;)
>> > 
>> > Any feedback about this package would be much appreciated.
>> 
>> works great for me. i use a compaq presario 1720US. the volume buttons always
>> work. but i haven't yet figured out when the rest of the buttons work.
>> sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. 
> 
> Can you see your multimedia button with xev? This is important for me to
> know.

sorry i dint check this one earlier. i haven't used xev much, but it does
show show a keymap notify event when i press my multimedia keys. something like
below:

FocusOut event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
 
FocusIn event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor
 
KeymapNotify event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
 
FocusOut event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    mode NotifyNormal, detail NotifyNonlinear
 
PropertyNotify event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    atom 0x10b (_NET_WM_ICON_GEOMETRY), time 1454047, state PropertyNewValue