On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 00:08 -0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > I got a wireless desktop keyboard and mouse for Christmas. I'm > wondering if it is at all possible to map the special keys under > Linux? The scroll lock doesn't seem to work. The keyboard is > designed for Windows XP and later, typical. Logitech really > should consider Linux support.
I did something similar recently. Started by using xev to get the scancodes, then used xmodmap to set keysyms. These exist for all of the multimedia keys on my keyboard (e.g. XF86Mail, note these are arbitrary, yhou can bind any key to them so for instance I've got the calculator key bound to XF86Terminal). I then use xbindkeys to launch applications on key press. Within that I use another package called xte to simulate mouse events. This enables me to have the volume knob act as a scroll wheel (for use with Ardour) but you might find it useful for the various rocker/scroll switches if they aren't doing anything. Paul M > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
