[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: hotkeys

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Sun 06 Apr 2008 22:56:50 NZST +1200, Simon Bridge wrote:

> I managed to find the scancodes ... they produced an error in syslog
> suggesting I use setkeycode to ... well...

Is this on the console?

> setkeycode lots me map these to 0-127, but I'm not sure how useful that
> is. All those have a response right?

As long as you can get a scancode from a key, you're set and ready. For
X11, read man xmodmap for how to map keycodes to keysyms (applications
will need the latter).

I can dig out an example for a multimedia keyboard's additional keys
later.

Volker

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