From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuxYS-0005zA-ST for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:15:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JJCSqV000095; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:12:28 GMT Received: from nexon.borjesson.homedns.org (h89n5c1o1031.bredband.skanova.com [217.209.226.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6JJ8Jv9017266 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:08:20 GMT Received: by nexon.borjesson.homedns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93BA367CE3; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:09:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:09:20 +0200 From: Patrick =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6rjesson?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes Message-ID: <20050719190920.GA25729@nexon> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1121756165.22274.50.camel@orpheus> <200507191731.13360.Petr.Kocmid@project-bhairava.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200507191731.13360.Petr.Kocmid@project-bhairava.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 7083b8eb-c557-46eb-9795-318028acf1a5 X-Archives-Hash: dea904342da796fac5f24aca0f495c95 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/07/19 17:31, Petr Kocmid wrote: > On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 08:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb > > ones) have some or all "extra" keys that just aren't visible outside of > > Winblows. > > > > I have a couple of them! I've tried all the usual ways of detecting > > them - xev and others that do a similar thing but they just don't > > register as keypresses in any standard way. > > > > I would like comments on why, and what methods, if any, may be available > > to detect such keys. Surely with the plethora of cheap multimedia > > keyboards out there, there is some way. >=20 > In X, once you analyze scan codes generated by those keys with xev, you c= an=20 > assign keycodes locally wih xmodmap. In keyboard maps, you can reuse some= =20 > exotic Fn key names available from historical mainframe terminals, unused= on=20 > PC platform, such as F26 and Shift+F26 and so, I can't now remember the e= xact=20 > number limit for function key names, depends on how x libraries built. Wo= rks=20 > great for KDE, which recognizes these names well for shortcuts. I think the originator is rather pointing out the problem that the newer keyboards (e.g. those with the F-Lock key) doesn't even generate a scancode. So xev for example won't even register a keypress when one of those extra multimedia keys is pressed by the user...=20 I had the same problem when I bought a new keyboard, but I just couldn't find a solution for it so I returned it and went back to one of my old IBM-clicky-click keyboards ;) --=20 Regards, Patrick B=F6rjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x2179= 2A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC3U/gzbh2ByF5Kl0RAt0YAKDEzzRjOFCKKvXPt1P+uCC+hlIkigCfVZVI 1zCi6RP9dskLBTk5D8X7wMI= =D6hw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list