[expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?
Hello - I was wondering how to enable the thinkpad buttons under Mandrake 9.1 ? Things like volume control and screen brightness settings do not seem to function under X. Any ideas? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?
Hello - I was wondering how to enable the thinkpad buttons under Mandrake 9.1 ? Things like volume control and screen brightness settings do not seem to function under X. Any ideas? Thanks, -turgut It depends a lot on your particular window manager, but here is a start: Run xev in a terminal window to determine what the keycode settings are for the extra keys. Use these to populate your local .Xmodmap file to look like: keycode 146 = XF86Mail keycode 147 = XF86Search Umm, I was looking for a complete list of XF86 keys and found this: http://reviewed.homelinux.org/en/xfreekeyboard.html Same idea but much explained much better than I... :D -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?
Kwan Lowe mused: It depends a lot on your particular window manager, but here is a start: Run xev in a terminal window to determine what the keycode settings are for the extra keys. Use these to populate your local .Xmodmap file to look like: keycode 146 = XF86Mail keycode 147 = XF86Search What about those usb keypads that you can attach to a laptop? Has anyone tried one under linux? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 00:11, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hello - I was wondering how to enable the thinkpad buttons under Mandrake 9.1 ? Things like volume control and screen brightness settings do not seem to function under X. Any ideas? Thanks, -turgut Freshmeat may well be your friend. http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=laptop+IBMsection=projectsx=0y=0 or http://freshmeat.net/projects/acme/?topic_id=58 or http://freshmeat.net/projects/ltpconf/?topic_id=253 or http://freshmeat.net/projects/xhekys/ Some of them may be in contribs so you might want to urpmi for them by name to check. James - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
