On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:00:44PM +0100, Patrick Cherry wrote: > Hello, > > I realise that this is a touch off topic, but the keyboard on my laptop > (an acer travelmate 521te) has several extra functions (accessible by > pushing the `Fn' button + F1 to F8), some of which generate keycodes under > X. Is there any way to assign macros to these keys under WindowMaker, > or perhaps another (cooler?) WM. > > Also there are several launch keys that under windows load things like > IE and Outlook... again, any way to harness these keys to generate > keycodes without serious kernel hacking?
if you have the window maker preference utility installed, you should be able to set up different key bindings with that. i haven't tried it on a laptop, yet, but i do have a "happy hacker" keyboard which means the function keys operate through the same logic you are using. this works fine with wmaker. if you don't have the preference utility, you can also simply edit the configuration files, but i've simply used the utility - so i haven't actually tried the editing route. HTH serge -- ----------------------------------------------------- Sergio J. Rey Editor, International Regional Science Review Associate Professor Department of Geography, San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182 Phone 619.594.8029 Fax 619.594.4938 http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html ----------------------------------------------------- Did you check the IGNOREME file? - anonymous
