using volume (and other) keyboard buttons

[Ian Porter]

Hi,

On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:00 pm, David T-G wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> I have a new e-machines desktop (hey, it was the cheapest thing we could
> find! :-) whose keyboard has extra Windows buttons on it for volume, CD
> control, and various aps.
>
> Can I map those so that they change my system volume (including mute) and
> perhaps even fire off selected programs (probably via wrappers)?  I
> imagine how I could get the key sequence (though I haven't tired it yet,
> and I don't know if they will map like regular or function keys), but
> then making thoses sequences execute KDE functions is beyond me.
>

I use a program called Xbindkeys to map all of the extra keys 
http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

HTH
>
> TIA & HAND
>
> :-D

-- 
Ian Porter
email: ian.porter3 at ntlworld.com

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