Assignment of internet keys / media buttons

sean seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Tue Mar 28 12:56:46 UTC 2006


On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:45:28 +0100
Cam <camilo at mesias.co.uk> wrote:


> >> The first problem is that the keys are initially unmapped; a secondary 
> >> problem is that some controls (eg. volume popup) don't respond to the 
> >> volume keys when they probably should.
> > 1. Write your modmaps to /etc/X11/Xmodmap. I use
> 
> Thanks for the reply - yes I can write to xmodmap but should every user 
> do this?
> 
> Couldn't I add a new keyboard type to the system which already includes 
> the mappings, maybe even have anaconda detect the keyboard?
> 

Don't know if this has been mentioned before in the conversation but many
keyboards already have full mappings provided which the user can
select by running gnome-keyboard-properties.   Adding additional types
for selection would be helpful.

Sean




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