On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 12:52, Jacco van Koll wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:31, Cliff Wells wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 15:43, Jacco van Koll wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > > > After reading this mailing-list for a while, and browsing around on > > > the Internet, i found out that it is difficult to get 'Multimedia' > > > keybinding support for Gnome and/or Evolution. As an example: I do > > > have a Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard, with all kinds of > > > buttons on it. Also, it supports additional use of the F1-F12 keys on > > > it, by using the F Lock key. > > > > > > As i know how to use the xmodmap program, i have now 30 keys 'extra' > > > available. All of those keys are 'configurable' in KDE, including the > > > 'send, reply, fwd' keys. There is no way i can get Gnome or Evolution > > > to understand that when i press the 'reply' button, it should reply to > > > the message in Evolution. > > > > > > This looks like a lack of flexibility right now. Those keys are > > > available on the keyboard, so why don't use those? > > > > > > Now i can understand that people will reply, why i buy such a > > > keyboard. Well, the only thing Microsoft can build, are keyboards and > > > mice. The rest sucks... And because i did have one of the first > > > 'natural' keyboards, i am hooked to it. So this is why i bought a new > > > one. (After 7 years using the old one). > > > > You can use lineak http://lineak.sourceforge.net/ to map those extended > > keys to anything you can specify at the shell prompt, plus a few other > > things. I've got the volume knob, standby button, cd controls and all > > those useless web buttons working on my HP multimedia keyboard. > > This i got working too. But now i am looking for a way to tell GNOME, or > EVO, that i would like to map key 'F35' to the 'reply' (now ctrl+r) > keystroke. This i cannot find anywhere in the Gnome setup/config, nor in > the Evolution config. As i look at kde, all programs give you the option > to assign keys to functions, just like reply, new, forward, etc. I got > those working ok... > > So probably, this is causing the babylonian mess :-)
I believe that this would be a WM issue. Back in the Gnome 1.4 days using Sawfish, I could bind any key to anything. Nowadays that I'm using Gnome 2.2 and Metacity, I can only bind keys to predefined functions, and I'm also a lot more limited in which keys I can use. If you're using the "default" Gnome 2 WM (being metacity) you can try switching to Sawfish and see where you can get with that. Either run "sawfish-ui --group=bindings" or go to Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sawfish -> Key Bindings. Good luck. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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