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 systems (the use-case discussed was laptops), then > this collected data could be put into an XML file in its own separate > package, able to be updated regularly without impacting anything else > (XML can easily be kept forward and backward compatible). Since I do not > know the applications and things involved in this (and therefore don't > know what to Google for) I am not sure of the implementation, or whether > Ubuntu uses it, but I am sure it is relevant.
I believe you are speaking of the:
System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts
I run a Dell D620, and it has just the volume keys, not all those other
multi-media keys, but I am sure its the same thing. Until recently, we
changed Distros here in R&D quite often until we settled on Ubuntu. (our
corp standard for servers and desktops has traditionally been RedHat,
though I have worked to get Ubuntu deployed and is quickly taking over.
however, all the embedded devices I have built have always been debian
based.) When we had SLED 10.1 and Fedora 6, we needed to use this
configurator to make the volume keys work. I am sure its no different
for the "Mail" or "Web" keys.
When I installed Ubuntu, it was the first distro to actually make the
keys work out of the box, without needing to run this program.
HTH
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Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technologies, Inc.
a division of Japan Communications, Inc.
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