On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Des Dougan wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 04:00, David T-G wrote: > > Hi, all -- > > > > I have a new e-machines desktop (hey, it was the cheapest thing we could > > find! :-) whose keyboard has extra Windows buttons on it for volume, CD > > control, and various aps. > > > > Can I map those so that they change my system volume (including mute) and > > perhaps even fire off selected programs (probably via wrappers)? I > > imagine how I could get the key sequence (though I haven't tired it yet, > > and I don't know if they will map like regular or function keys), but > > then making thoses sequences execute KDE functions is beyond me. > > You should also try acme (search on rpmfind.net) - it has a GUI > interface to map buttons to various functions. Works well. > Or Create a bin directory in your home directory if you don't already have one. Write a script to do what you want and stick it in the bin directory and chmod the script to 700. Mine are ~/bin/VOLUP ~/bin/VOLDOWN ~/bin/VOLMUTE I do xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap on startup of kde so that my multimedia keys are mapped to F13, F14, and F15 respectively. Use xev to figure out what mappings are appropriate. I added 3 menu items to kde using the menu editor. I also disabled "Enable launch feedback" for each of the items. Add the shortcut key as appropriate when adding items. In my scripts I use amixer to set the volume. It is kind of strange that kmixer doesn't have the ability to map keys to volume up, down, or mute. I think I remember it being somewhere, but the settings were never permanent: if you logged out and logged back in the settings went away. Oh well. -- Thanks, Joseph ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.