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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