On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:14:55PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:13 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > Good call! After searching blindly for a while, it turned out that > > Kmilo, the KDE special key notifier was running. Unselecting the > > check box in the KDE control center->KDE components->Service Manager > > got rid of the annoying window. Now I need to figure out how to > > configure it properly for the 8600 extra keys. A quick google search > > has turned out a total lack of documention on kmilo. > > The information on this page seems to indicate that you need to > configure the keycodes in Xmodmap first. The page is rather out of date
Not much info there but the configuration of Xmodmap seems to be important. > so it might not be necessary. I'm sure a KDE user can give better > advice. > http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=kmilo > > For Dell laptops, I think you need the i8k module loaded for the special > keys to work. You might also need the i8kutils package. Yes, that has been installed and running since the sarge days. I actually had the keys working in sarge with hotkeys (not khotkeys that refused to work in sarge). Since I got rid of the Kmilo volume window, I tried to get the old setup to work and it failed because my hotkeys config file uses aumix to raise/lower the volume and the etch upgrade didn't create /dev/mixer, which aumix uses. After creating /dev/mixer manually, my old setup works again. Eventually, I'll want to configure khotkeys, since it is installed with kde and seems to be the preferred/more debian/kde way of configuring this. Still from the control center, the keycodes are not received. This is probably due to the key bindings in Xmodmap that are not yet there. Interestingly, xev catches them and displays them. In any case this is a low priority project now that my old way of doing this works again. Thanks for the help! A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
