Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Olsson
Kevin Fries wrote: > > I believe you are speaking of the: > System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts > I agree, the problem is not that the keys don't work at all. Rather, the problem is that for many people there are no keysyms defined for the keys. And Ubuntu has many multimedia keys conf

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:54:24AM +0200, Pascal De Vuyst wrote: > Currently Ubuntu provides no out of the box support for the extra multimedia > or > internet keys on desktop keyboards. For any keyboard that sends the same events as used on the Microsoft multimedia keyboards (which is most of t

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Sam Tygier
Chris Warburton wrote: > At LUGRadio Live there was some talk from some RedHat/Fedora people in > the power management BoF about a generic system for submitting keycodes > and things to a central store, so power-user types can try out all of > the buttons on their systems (the use-case discussed wa

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Kevin Fries
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:55 +0100, Chris Warburton wrote: > At LUGRadio Live there was some talk from some RedHat/Fedora people in > the power management BoF about a generic system for submitting keycodes > and things to a central store, so power-user types can try out all of > the buttons on their

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2007, 11:54 +0200 schrieb Pascal De Vuyst: > Currently Ubuntu provides no out of the box support for the extra > multimedia or internet keys on desktop keyboards. all five different multimedia keyboards i own are supported out of the box, volume and brightness control key

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Warburton
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:54 +0200, Pascal De Vuyst wrote: > Currently Ubuntu provides no out of the box support for the extra > multimedia or internet keys on desktop keyboards. I plugged one of these in (a Logitech wireless keyboard) and its play/pause/etc. buttons all worked, volume buttons, ca

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Alexandre Strube
2007/8/15, Pascal De Vuyst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Currently Ubuntu provides no out of the box support for the extra > multimedia or internet keys on desktop keyboards. > May not do for any keyboard. However, our company already sold 6+ computers with Ubuntu and all of them had media keys wor

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Luka Renko
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:54:24 Pascal De Vuyst wrote: > KDE in Ubuntu seems to provide out of the box support for > multimedia/internet keys. This is because kdebase-bin package provides this > file: /usr/share/apps/kxkb/ubuntu.xmodmap > This file contains keycode to keysym mappings for frequ

Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-15 Thread Pascal De Vuyst
Currently Ubuntu provides no out of the box support for the extra multimedia or internet keys on desktop keyboards. The problem is that not all keyboards generate the same X keycodes for the same multimedia/internet keys, these keys were added later to keyboards and every manufacturer could choose