On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:10, Rodney Dawes wrote: > These days, pretty much every keyboard is full of multimedia keys. > The real issue is that there are no real keyboard "drivers" for X, > and no preconfigured mappings exist, so these keys must be xmodmapped > manually. But if we aren't going to use the keys that are actually > made for starting the web browser/etc... because they aren't on all > keyboards, why are we going to bother with any keys that aren't? > I know the machine I'm on right now doesn't have windows keys. It > has very few multimedia keys for that matter too, but that is the > price of simplicity and nice hardware. > > I'll also restate that I don't think this belongs in metacity, and > setting/changing the defaults for the command keys to do things, > with no real user-visible way of seeing what they do, aside from > the fact that if you mistype and hit some keys, mozilla starts up, > is not a solution to the problem. But eh, what troubled times we > are in. Geez, I can't believe nobody put it forward. It belongs to acme. acme is your friend, blah blah blah, use my toy ;) Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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