who had ever worked with khotkeys?
 

Hi
here are my questions:
1. How can I know which keyboard model is matches with my keyboard? my keyboard model is Genius KB-16e. I chose Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro / Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro. Unfortunately for example it didn't recognize Word & Excel keys.

2. How can I configure Audio (Play/Pause) and Audio (Stop) and etc keys for using them with xmms or mplayer? I know one way is using DCOP function call. but as I see these programs don't provide any DCOP function to call.

3. If there is anyone who can work with its "Keyboard Shortcut -> Keyboard Input" correctly please tell me how can he/she do this?

Cheers,
Mohammad

any luck on your keyboard problems? because I have the same problems :(

any idea?

same keyboard in here ...
any idea is really welcome ...

no, xev won't detect any of they extra keys ...

unknown keys howto
 

Press the unknown key and type 'dmesg' to console to see what kernel says.

For me it says:

atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xbb on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e03b <keycode>' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xbb on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e03b <keycode>' to make it known.


So at least kernel recognizes them. The next step is to find free keycode:

dumpkeys |egrep '=$'

Select your favourite keycode from the list and assign it to the key. I did:

sudo setkeycodes e03b 120

Then use xev to see what X event the key creates. For me it gives:

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 88366743, (165,-317), root:(168,277),
state 0x10, keycode 139 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

From there I read 'keycode 139', so I can assign eg:

xmodmap -e "keycode 139 = XF86Calculator"

Now my key gives XF86Calculator event, which I can bind to whatever I like with khotkeys.


If you ask me, all this should be done automatically; after all, kernel recognized the 'unknown' key and the rest could be automated. There could be a 'hotkey detect'-mode in which the system would find these unmapped keys and asked user to assign a X event for it.