At 998502913s since epoch (08/22/01 06:55:13 -0400 UTC), Martin W?rtele wrote:

> i mapped my compaq armada's special keys (info, home, search, mail) but now
> i'd like to know how i can launch an app when i press one of those keys in
> x.

After much fooling around with my Microsoft Natural keyboard, I found the
"hotkeys" package to work quite well.  I've set it to start up with X, and
now it sits in the background and waits for those special keys to be pressed.

You can also try to assign the keys through the window manager (IceWM can do
this), but this requires the keys to be mapped correctly.  Hotkeys does not
require the keys have X11 Mappings; you can just use the raw keycodes.

Jason

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