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On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:42 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Got myself a Lenovo keyboard ... |
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> a "ThinkPlus Enhanced Performance USB Keyboard" |
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> wow, it looked much better online than it feels now ... *sigh* |
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> I want to use that keyboard with Gnome (2.26 right now). |
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> I googled how to use the multimedia-keys already, seems as if I have |
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> to |
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> face some serious key-logging and hacking around to get those working |
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> (no, nothing usable on that funny CD). |
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Most of the time with GNOME they work out of the box. |
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I too use a keyboard that has all those glitzy keys on them. I rarely |
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use them however. I usually map them to other CTRL-ALT-ALNUM-like |
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shortcuts because then if I ever switch keyboards all my shortcuts will |
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still work and the keys are (for the most part) always in the same |
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location. But anyway, most of them just work except for the zoom in/out |
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keys. I haven't seen any X events for them yet. |
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GNOME has a settings for keyboard shortcuts. Usually you just have to |
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assign an even to a key if it's not already assigned. |
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I use the evdev managed keyboard. It seems to work much better than the |
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pre-defined layouts. And also I can easily switch keyboards and have |
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stuff "just work". |
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> Some of them work (volume, internet-keys to the left), only the 7 keys |
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> on top miss. I don't actually NEED them, but as I PAID them .... you |
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> know ... ;-) |
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> -- |
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> Just before I start hacking myself, I want to ask you if maybe someone |
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> has already gone through this and is willing to share ...? |
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> Sorry if I sound lazy, actually I am already getting a bit tired of |
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> hacking stuff like that everytime I get a new piece of hardware. |
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Have you tried using the evdev driver? |