On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:10:22PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Is there a way to configure the extra keys on my laptop - play, stop, FF, RW > - to work with a software CD player? > > I have found the funkey kernel patch - http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey/ > - but is there a Debian way? (Woody 2.4.18)
You probably don't need to patch your kernel or do anything funky to get them to work. At least on my Microsoft Natural keyboard with multimedia and "internet keys", the keys already generated keysyms in X. They have names like XF86Standby for the "Sleep" key, and XF86VolMute or something like that. Here are the keys as I've got them defined in my .xmodmap: keycode 0xEA = XF86Back keycode 0xE9 = XF86Forward keycode 0xE8 = XF86Stop keycode 0xE7 = XF86Refresh keycode 0xE5 = XF86Search keycode 0xE6 = XF86Favorites keycode 0xB2 = XF86HomePage keycode 0xEC = XF86Mail keycode 0xA0 = XF86AudioMute keycode 0xAE = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 0xB0 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 0xA2 = XF86AudioPlay XF86AudioPause keycode 0xA4 = XF86AudioStop keycode 0x90 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 0x99 = XF86AudioNext keycode 0xED = XF86AudioMedia Once you've got the keysyms bound, you can do interesting things with them. It's usually in your window manager that you do this. Sawfish has xmms bindings available, so you can easily bind the multimedia keys to xmms actions. It's also pretty easy to get Window Maker to do useful things with a given keypress. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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