Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[dragoran]

Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Sáb 12 Mai 2007, dragoran escreveu:
>   
>> Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>>     
>>> Em Qua 09 Mai 2007, Matthias Clasen escreveu:
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 07:29 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Le mardi 08 mai 2007 à 17:51 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
>>>>>           
>>>>>> For these, I had the crazy idea today that maybe you could have a tool
>>>>>> that asks you to press a key, and if no key event is coming forward,
>>>>>> parse the dmesg output for the keyboard driver warning...
>>>>>>             
>>>>> You won't get a keyboard warning : most enhanced keys do not generate
>>>>> anything today because they're attached to a different device than the
>>>>> main keyboard, and there's no driver for this device (yet)
>>>>>           
>>>> I do get warnings for all of the nonworking keys on this laptop, at
>>>> least.
>>>>         
>>> Lucky you :) On mine, none of them are detected by the kernel.
>>>       
>> I also get this kind of warings:
>> atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd8 on
>> isa0060/serio0).
>> atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e058 <keycode>' to make it known.
>> atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd8 on
>> isa0060/serio0).
>> atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e058 <keycode>' to make it known.
>>     
>
> These are easier to solve. Use the setkeycodes command to map ths scancodes 
> listed to unused keycodes. Then you'll be able to use these keys even in X 
> and map shortcuts to them.
> You may add the setkeycodes lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that they are 
> always executed when you boot.
>
>   
thats what I do now ;)
but I don't think this is a user friendly way ....