[arch-general] ErgononmicKeyboardQuestion

[Hunter Jozwiak]

On 12/28/2014 05:52 PM, Ido Rosen wrote:
> 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.)
How would i tell Thunderbird to use a certain key to reply? They way 
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.