Hi all,
I've recently changed my keyboard to a BTC Model 5207 (After spilling stuff on my old one). And basically, its got all these extra buttons on it for browsing, volume control, what have you. I'd like to use the buttons for custom purposes. Is there an easy way to set custom key mappings for this type of thing?

As of right now I have tried using KDE's custom key bindings, which are supposed to be somewhere in the control center...but I'm not finding. When I "cat /dev/input/event1", it is spitting out ASCII sequences for each of the buttons, so I know they work.

I tried to write a little program to read the "event1" stream and just recognize the sequences accordingly, but I've had limited to no success doing that. I also have a feeling that something somewhere in Linux already exists that will help me do this without reinventing the wheel.

Any suggestions? If anyone has accomplished similar custom key bindings before, I'd really appreciate the input.

Thanks in advance!

Look into a utility called lineak. If your keyboard is supported, you can define custom behavior for those multimedia keys.

Thanks for the reply.
Well, my specific model isn't listed in those supported. But I've seen similar model drivers for other things work in the past. I'm going to go ahead and try it out.

I have had a little more success with the programming in the mean time. I can now have my program recognize the keys...but the idea is to have it then turn around and send predetermined key sequences back to the OS as if the keyboard had sent them. I have no clue how to do so yet. I'll check out lineak and see what it can do.

Thanks again!