Iain Buchanan wrote: > hmm xev looks good, but it doesn't register anything at all for 7 out of > 8 of my 'extra' keys on the keyboard. For the eighth it says > (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol). Its a 104 key keyboard with 8 extra keys along > the top (so I guess its a 112 key keyboard!) Is there any way I can > detect these keys? > > Thanks The Xserver emits the keycodes & Keysyms. You can update these using xmodmap. For instance, xev returns the following for my "window" key: KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x1400002, root 0x4a, subw 0x0, time 472295996, (106,126), root:(229,871), state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" Looking in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB it looks like there keysym's IA1 .. IA15 and IB1 .. IB16 might be available (I don't know what they're really meant for). Then I can map the keycode to a keysym with xmodmap xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = IA1 IB1' And then for "window" and shift-"window": KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x1400002, root 0x4a, subw 0x0, time 472672129, (77,42), root:(200,787), state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0x10004101, IA1), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x1400002, root 0x4a, subw 0x0, time 472673806, (77,42), root:(200,787), state 0x1, keycode 115 (keysym 0x10004201, IB1), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 characters: "" Metacity might handle the modifier keys directly, so assiging xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = IA1' might still allow <shift>IA1 and so on. You'd have to put the xmodmap in a session startup file for that workstation for it to have automatically have effect. Looking in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, it looks like if you have a /etc/X11/Xmodmap or $HOME/.Xmodmap file it will load that during session startup. Read the xmodmap man page for more. Haven't been able to test this with metacity - gnome doesn't support multiscreen until gnome 2.2. But I hope this helps. Cheers - Bob Arendt -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list