On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ido Rosen <i...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi guys. >> I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not >> work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to >> reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these >> features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux? > > Those keys probably (if your keyboard is anything like mine) are > associated with specific scan codes / key codes. You can use xev to > figure out which key corresponds to which code/signal by pressing > those keys with xev in the foreground. Then, you can bind those keys > to specific actions/commands in your window manager / desktop > environment of choice. (For example, I have my volume up/down buttons > tied to the appropriate amixer commands.)
(Also, many desktop environments, like gnome/kde/xfce4, come with some of the common keys bound to various actions by default.)
