On 12/28/2014 05:52 PM, Ido Rosen wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ido Rosen <ido@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi guys.
I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not
work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to
reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these
features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux?
Those keys probably (if your keyboard is anything like mine) are
associated with specific scan codes / key codes. You can use xev to
figure out which key corresponds to which code/signal by pressing
those keys with xev in the foreground. Then, you can bind those keys
to specific actions/commands in your window manager / desktop
environment of choice. (For example, I have my volume up/down buttons
tied to the appropriate amixer commands.)
(Also, many desktop environments, like gnome/kde/xfce4, come with some
of the common keys bound to various actions by default.)
How would i tell Thunderbird to use a certain key to reply? They way
this one works is quite interesting. There is a toggle key to switch the
function keys to serve as quick keys. In the toggled mode, F6 is the
button that will reply to an email.
