Re: [Evolution] Gadget request: Support for Multimedia Keyboards



On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 21:02, Alex Malinovich wrote:
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,

SNIP------------

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. :)

Grin, I am using KDE as WM. And, because of the perfect PIM
functionality, I do use Evolution. Therefor, this question was 'as is'.
Under KDE, it is possible too to bind a key to a function. This works
fine for me. But Evo grabs the key-bindings like ctrl-enter to send from
somewhere. And i wanna bind this to my pre-def key 'IB2' which is bound
to the Unlocked F9 key on the ms keyboard. And i am still digging :-)

Regards, 
Jacco van Koll 

Slackware Linux Certified Engineer 

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