Thibaut Cousin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently got a new keyboard with several special keys to power off the >computer, launch the mailer, etc. I'd like to make them work under Linux (I'm >using Potato). > When I press them at boot time, I get on screen a message "unknown scancode" >with a code "e0 xx". But I fear these codes are only for the console, not for >X. So : > - how do I get the codes of these keys for X ? xkeycaps doesn't work, > as it only knows standard keyboards. > - where can I configure their action ? Is there a tool to do it ?
I can't help you for X, I'm afraid; I did get a few extra keys on my keyboard working at the console, though. Have a look at setkeycodes(8); with the aid of showkey(1) you'll be able to assign arbitrary scancodes to arbitrary keycodes. You'll need to find a keycode that's currently unassigned. You'll need to fiddle with your init.d scripts in order to get this working, though - I think /etc/init.d/keymaps-lct.sh is a reasonable place to put this sort of thing, or you could write your own and link it into /etc/rcS.d. (Hmm, maybe Debian needs its own tool for this kind of thing ...) At the console, you can configure the action of extra keys using dumpkeys(1) and loadkeys(1), and perhaps it would be worth looking at the "READLINE" section in the bash(1) man page to see if that's any use to you. X is substantially more fiddly - I'd be interested to hear from any X experts who actually understand XKB ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
