using volume (and other) keyboard buttons

[tyche]

On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:45, Ian Porter wrote:
> 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
and there is leak too. dont know where to get it right off hand, but it also 
works in text mode iirc

tyche

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