Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 19:41 -0700, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> * On Tue Jul-19-2005 at 04:26:05 PM +0930, Iain Buchanan said:
> > It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb
> > ones) have some or all "extra" keys that just aren't visible outside of
> > Winblows.
> >
> > I have a couple of them!  I've tried all the usual ways of detecting
> > them - xev and others that do a similar thing but they just don't
> > register as keypresses in any standard way.
> >
> > I would like comments on why, and what methods, if any, may be available
> > to detect such keys.  Surely with the plethora of cheap multimedia
> > keyboards out there, there is some way.
>
> Perhaps this blog entry[1] has some useful information for you.
>
> [1] http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/flameeyes/2005/06/15/and_the_keyboard_lose_the_match
>

thanks, that looks really interesting...
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>

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