[plug] Internet/Multimedia keyboard

[Justin]

Hello Brendan

apt-get install hotkeys

Sorry to give a Debian solution, but you can probably find the program 
somewhere else (if needed), have not used it.

HTH

Justin

At 09:38 AM 11/09/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Brenden Veljacich wrote:
>
> > I'm about to buy a new Logitech "Elite" keyboard, It comes with
> > Internet/Multimedia keys that are supposed to work under MS Windows but I'm
> > guessing it isn't going to work under Linux straight out of the box so what
> > will I have to do to make it work?
>
>Brenden,
>I guess the extra keys will generate new "scancodes". You must do three
>things:
>- tell the kernel to map the scancodes to keycodes.
>- tell the X-server to map the key-codes to X key-syms.
>- tell your window-manager or application how to respond to them, if it
>   doesnt know already.
>
>See the Keyboard HOWTO for a start, and it will refer you to man pages.
>You should be able to find the scancodes on the web, or using showkey(1).
>
>Here is the relevant page:
>http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-14.html
>
>See setkeycodes(1), loadkeys(1).
>
>Cheers, Mike.
>
>--
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