[arch-general] ErgononmicKeyboardQuestion
Hi guys. I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux?
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys. I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux?
Those keys probably (if your keyboard is anything like mine) are associated with specific scan codes / key codes. You can use xev to figure out which key corresponds to which code/signal by pressing those keys with xev in the foreground. Then, you can bind those keys to specific actions/commands in your window manager / desktop environment of choice. (For example, I have my volume up/down buttons tied to the appropriate amixer commands.)
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys. I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux?
Those keys probably (if your keyboard is anything like mine) are associated with specific scan codes / key codes. You can use xev to figure out which key corresponds to which code/signal by pressing those keys with xev in the foreground. Then, you can bind those keys to specific actions/commands in your window manager / desktop environment of choice. (For example, I have my volume up/down buttons tied to the appropriate amixer commands.)
(Also, many desktop environments, like gnome/kde/xfce4, come with some of the common keys bound to various actions by default.)
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
Hi guys. I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux? Those keys probably (if your keyboard is anything like mine) are associated with specific scan codes / key codes. You can use xev to
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz@gmail.com> wrote: figure out which key corresponds to which code/signal by pressing those keys with xev in the foreground. Then, you can bind those keys to specific actions/commands in your window manager / desktop environment of choice. (For example, I have my volume up/down buttons tied to the appropriate amixer commands.) (Also, many desktop environments, like gnome/kde/xfce4, come with some of the common keys bound to various actions by default.) How would i tell Thunderbird to use a certain key to reply? They way
On 12/28/2014 05:52 PM, Ido Rosen wrote: this one works is quite interesting. There is a toggle key to switch the function keys to serve as quick keys. In the toggled mode, F6 is the button that will reply to an email.
Am 28.12.2014 um 23:44 schrieb Hunter Jozwiak:
Hi guys. I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux?+
Search for: xev xbindkeys xmodmap https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/extra_keyboard_keys
On December 28, 2014 6:01:02 PM EST, grztnt <lists@grztnt.eu> wrote:
Am 28.12.2014 um 23:44 schrieb Hunter Jozwiak:
Hi guys. I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux?+
Search for: xev xbindkeys xmodmap
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-2.html Some utilities for viewing scancodes and setting them are in the above link. -- vixsomnis
With acpid (there's a page in Arch Wiki) you can assign arbitrary commands to keys.
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Christian Demsar
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