Keyboard-problems

[Marian Stepka]

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On Friday 19 April 2002 23:29, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
Check configuration of X-Free if you have corectly set keyboard. Scroll Lock 
Switch between them.

> Sorry for a longish post (actually a repost from a message I posted to 
> Linuxnewbie.org), but I think I should provide as much information as 
> possible. This might not be 100% KDE-related, but I decided to give it a 
shot 
> regardless :)
> 
> I just got brand new Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical, and I must say, that 
> it rules! But, I have two (apparently related) problems with it:
> 
> 1. @-symbol doesn't work. It works in terminal but not in X. Also, none of 
> the other extra symbols don't work (pound-sign etc)
> 
> 2. I have been trying to get all the extra buttons on the keyboard to work. 
> It has ALOT of 'em! I have received instructions on how to enable them, but 
> it just won't work. The instructions said that I have to copy following 
files 
> (slightly modified, modifications will follow) to their respective locations 
> (the keyboard is called "logifreedom"):
> 
> /etc/X11/xkb/symbols.dir
> /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86
> /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfee86.lst
> /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/inet
> /usr/local/bin/logitechctl
> 
> symbols.dir has the following relevant info:
> 
> --p----- a------- inet(logifreedom)
> 
> xfree86 has following relevant info:
> 
> ! model = keycodes geometry
> logifreedom = xfree86 pc(pc104)
> 
> ! model layout = symbols
> pc104 fi = fi(pc104)
> logifreedom fi = fi(pc104)+inet(logifreedom)
> (these was originally set to "us" but I changed it to "fi" since I have a 
> finnish keyboard)
> 
> The "inet" file has the mappings of the extra keys, and they seem to be 
> correct. The "logitechctl" in /usr/local/bin is a shell-script that actually 
> does something with the extra keys. It looks like this (I got this script 
> from a guy who uses it with Sawfish):
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> CMD=$1
> if [ -z "$CMD" ]; then
>  CMD=help
> fi
> 
> 
> browseTo()
> {
>  BROWSER="mozilla"
>  if [ -n "`ps -au $USER | grep $BROWSER | grep -v grep`" ]; then
>  $BROWSER -remote "openURL($1)"
>  else
>  $BROWSER "$1"
>  fi
> }
> 
> if [ "$CMD" == "Start" ]; then
>  browseTo
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Back" ]; then
>  echo -n ""
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Standby" ]; then
>  apm -s
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Finance" ]; then
>  jpilot
> elif [ "$CMD" == "HotLinks" ]; then
>  nautilus
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Community" ]; then
>  xchat
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Favorites" ]; then
>  gnome-terminal --use-factory --start-factory-server
> elif [ "$CMD" == "VendorHome" ]; then
>  kdesu /sbin/yast2 menu
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Mail" ]; then
>  evolution
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Shop" ]; then
>  vnware
> elif [ "$CMD" == "Search" ]; then
>  openUrl "http://www.google.com"
> elif [ "$CMD" == "HomePage" ]; then
>  browseTo "http://$HOSTNAME/index.html"
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioMedia" ]; then
>  xmms --show-main-window
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioLowerVolume" ]; then
>  aumix -v-5
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioRaiseVolume" ]; then
>  aumix -v+5
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioMute" ]; then
>  if [ -f ${HOME}/.logitechctl ] ; then 
> aumix -v`cat ${HOME}/.logitechctl`
>  rm -f ${HOME}/.logitechctl
>  else
>  echo >${HOME}/.logitechctl `aumix -vq|awk '{print $2}'|awk 
- --field-separator 
> "," '{print $1}'`
>  aumix -v0
>  fi
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioPrev" ]; then
>  xmms --rew
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioNext" ]; then
>  xmms --fwd
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioPlayPause" ]; then
>  if esdctl allinfo| grep >/dev/null xmms; then
>  xmms --pause
>  else
>  xmms --play
>  fi
> elif [ "$CMD" == "AudioStop" ]; then
>  xmms --stop
> else
>  echo $0 "[keyname]"
> fi
> 
> The relevant information in XF86Config:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>  Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
>  Driver "keyboard"
>  Option "CoreKeyboard"
>  Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>  Option "XkbModel" "logifreedom"
>  Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
> EndSection
> 
> The problem is that the extra keys don't do anything. I'm not an expert on 
> these kinds of things, so any help would be appreciated! Distribution is 
> Debian Unstable, X is 4.1, desktop is KDE 2.2.2. How do I enable those extra 
> keys in KDE?
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> 

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