Making use of eject key

[Matthew Flaschen]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> According to showkey -s, the key code is "0xe0 0x7d".
> How do I make the key usable in KDE?

I don't know how to use showkey -s, but you can try xev.

Run xev, press the eject button and watch for the KeyPress event.  You
should see:

keycode ##

as part of the output.  After that you will see "keysym ####, " then
either a symbol name or "No Symbol".  If you see "No Symbol", create or open

~/.xmodmap

in a text editor.  Add the line:

"keycode ## = XF86Eject"

Now, you need to make sure:

xmodmap ~/.xmodmap

runs on startup.  There are various ways of doing this, the simplest of
which is adding a script to:

~/.kde/Autostart

Once you have run xmodmap, KDE should treat it as a normal key.

If a key is already assigned, you can skip this the xmodmap process.

Matt Flaschen