[arch-general] ErgononmicKeyboardQuestion

[Ido Rosen]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ido Rosen <ido at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz at 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.)