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[opensuse] Mapping and re-mapping Keyboard Keys
by Paul Groves 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Hi, I asked this question before but I still have been unable to work out how to resolve it. This is on an ubuntu 17.04 box. I have asked twice on ubuntu forums but have had no replies at all in 2 years! Also I seem to get more sense out of those on the opensuse list. :) I have a very old keyboard, Tiny branded (yes Tiny! remember them?) PS/2 keyboard (model: KB-9805). It has many hotkeys on the top, currently they either do not work (xev doesn't show up the press) or they are mapped wrong (xev shows that a diffferent button has been pressed). It is a great keyboard as it is built to last. Currently I have used it for 19 years and it has still not even had the letters wear off! Unlike my other PC with which I have lost count how many modern keyboards I have worn out. Current mappings are as follows (Key > Mapping): Internet > Mute Close > Not detected HK1 > Home Page HK2 > Not detected HK3 > Vol + HK4 > Calculator Prev Track > Vol down Stop > Stop Play > Play Next Track > Next Track Vol + > Not detected Vol - > Not detected Mute > Not detected Sleep > Not detected So I need change the mappings of: Internet / HK1 / HK3 / HK4 / Prev Track so that they are recognized by the system as the correct key. Then I need to add mappings to: Close / HK2 / Vol + / Vol - / Mute / Sleep so they are recognized at all! As far as I understand it, when you press a button the kernel sends a scancode to the system which then maps it to a keycode. They keycode is then used to map to a function. Is this correct? So far I have found that if I press a key that does not work (in this case the close hotkey, then run dmesg | tail -2 I get this output: [23566.462308] atkbd serio0: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xa3 on isa0060/serio0). [23566.462311] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e023 <keycode>' to make it known. This gives me, on the first line 0xa3 and on the second line e023 What are these two codes? Are they the scancode or keycode? As for the keys that do work I have found that if I go to a terminal (ctrl + alt + f2) and press one of the keys that are already mapped to something (in this case the internet hotkey) then run showkey -k I get this output: 0xe0 0x20 0xe0 0xa0 I am assuming I can ignore the 0xe0? So this leaves me with 0x20 and 0xa0 which I assume are key press and key release. Is this correct? Are they the scancode or keycode? I have written these codes down for all my hotkeys. How can I now change their mappings? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Mapping and re-mapping Keyboard Keys
by Paul Groves 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

On 27/06/17 08:34, Aaron Digulla wrote: > xmodmap -pke | less These keycodes do not seem to match the system. For example in the output of this command it says: keycode 158 = XF86WWW NoSymbol XF86WWW I ran setkeycodes e020 158 When I press the e020 (Internet) button xev says I have pressed code 166 (Back button). How on earth has this happened? I specified 158 not 166. What have I done wrong? Here is the xev output: KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001, root 0x4be, subw 0x0, time 1723049, (-426,772), root:(567,824), state 0x10, keycode 166 (keysym 0x1008ff26, XF86Back), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001, root 0x4be, subw 0x0, time 1723136, (-426,772), root:(567,824), state 0x10, keycode 166 (keysym 0x1008ff26, XF86Back), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False > No but there are lots of uncommon keycodes which you can use. For example, F13-F35 or KP_F1...KP_F4. In the output of the command xmodmap -pke | less there are no codes for F13-F35 or KP_F1 etc I would like to set HK1 - HK4 to F13 - F16 How do I find the keycodes for these buttons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] who is supposed to define SYSCONFIG when starting apache2?
by Per Jessen 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

This morning I was renewing some certificates on a customer webserver running Leap421. As usual this requires a restart - which suddenly failed due to configuration issues. It seems some modules were not loaded - proxy, proxy_http, filter - weird, the config hasn't been changed for months. After some debugging I found this in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: # generated from default value of APACHE_MODULES # in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 <IfDefine !SYSCONFIG> Include /etc/apache2/loadmodule.conf </IfDefine> And the previous line: # generated from APACHE_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 Include /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf is just gone. I know Leap421 is no longer under maintenance, but this is a bit silly. Wasn't this tested at all? BTW, it seems to be the same in Leap423. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] konsole
by Basil Chupin 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

On 18/06/17 11:09, Anton Aylward wrote: > On 17/06/17 08:19 PM, Basil Chupin wrote: >> The OP is simply asking why his konsole is not >> working in this simple mode :-). > I have no reason to look under the hood of my car, but when it stops working and > I'm off in the boonies and phone my mechanic, he tells me to do various things, > check various things, some of them "under the hood", report them to him in more > detail than "its not working the way It used to, the way I think it should, the > way it used it..." > > To me, as a 'software mechanic', I'm doing much the same as my car mechanic; try > these things, look at these things and report back. > > To me, even with my limited knowledge, I know that turning the ignition and > there is cranking means the battery has charge enough to move the starter motor. > > > No, I don't expect everyone to be a 'software mechanic', though there are a lot > on this list in one form or another. I do expect people who use computers to be > 'logically minded", certainly enough to perform a diagnostic that explained to > them, and report the results. > > If you think that's unreasonable then let me know, let the whole list know. No, what you said is not unreasonable. Quite reasonable in fact. But the OP asked a simple question and is a 'simple' user which means he needs a simple answer. If that does not suffice to get him out of trouble then one can then proceed with deeper more detailed explanations. Dumping on him, or anyone, a lot of mind-boggling detail only confuses the issue for that person. Of course, if that person, i.e. any OP, was someone like yourself then such info would be a thrill to read :-). Much has been written for the OP to help him solve his problem. We now await a report from him to see if any of that had helped him solve it :-) . Basil PS But I have a question: why did you send the above to me as a private message in the first instance knowing full well that I could not response to you in private because you put the return address as "Reply to opensuse(a)opensuse.org"? -- Government has become a committee for managing the affairs of the rich. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Providing corrections for oss RPMs (cyrus-imapd)
by Moby 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

The latest cyrus imapd rpm at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/mail has a serious bug that causes local mail delivery using cyrus deliver to fail, with a segfault in lmtpunix. I have put a patch together (from googling and plagiarizing the work of others better than me) and put together a new RPM with this patch. How does one go about submitting it to the original maintainer or somehow make the corrections available to the community? Thanks in advance for any help, --Moby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Alien users?
by Peter Suetterlin 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

Hi List, no, not if one of you is an alien. Rather looking for users of the alien package :D I'm using it (well, want to) for converting some binary SDK libs from DEB to RPM. Have done so before successfully, but now I'm hit by the debian policy of having the 64bit libs in */lib/, so a plain convert doesn't work (ldd won't find the propper libs). Has anyone solved that problem already? (I know I can stop the conversion in the middle, shuffle files around, edit the spec file and run rpmbuild, but doing that for several files and for each update of the SDK calls for some automatism...) Thanks! Pit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] plasma 5 settings in Leap 42.2
by Istvan Gabor 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Hello: Without saying anything about Leap 42.2's default plasma desktop, just a list of questions. I have Leap 42.2 with deafult KDE desktop (plasma 5?): -desktop panel: how to see hight in pixels? -start menu classic mode: how to set old opensuse classification; menu/submenu, eg. Multimedia/Video players, Audio editors, Volume control etc, as it used to be? -how to set start menu: most frequently used application? (not favorites and recently used) -how to disable KDE wallett service window popping up (eg. every time after vivaldi startup) -where is screen saver settings? (not screen locker) -plasma system settings - search field: where is clear search field button? -measurement units: set to metric (not country) -time format: set to YYYY-MM-DD, not country, because I don't know which country uses this -keyboard switching by keyboard shortcut: disable keyboard layout changing popup/widget in the middle of the screen -kde5/plasma5 system settings: help/about doesn't show version number, why, how do I get it? -how to disable the menu button at the right edge of the bottom panel? -panel add widgets looks very ugly - very wide column at the left edge of the screen with HUGE ugly icons and big fonts - is this normal? -how to set font color to real black 0/0/0 rgb, not gray) on the panel, in the start menu, in the panel clock -how to prevent plasma5 to mess up KDE3 session (it even messes up kde3 session of users who never used/logged in to plasma5) -how to fix missing panel icons, many application icon on the panel is not shown, only empty space at their supposed locations, this depends also on icon them, but breeze (deafult?) is affected too. Finally, is it feasible to install KDE4 instead of this default thing, something that was available in 13.1 and 13.2? If yes, how? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] konsole
by James Bunnell 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

I have the regular super user konsole. but the konsole that is supposed to be the regular konsole prompts for a password each time i open it. i have tried the profile thing, no avail. any ideas as to why this is? thanks. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Where is default browser set?
by L A Walsh 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Let me rephrase a previous Q -- When some program tries to show a URL, it invokes your "default browser". How does it know what your default browser is and where is that set? Is it a symlink somewhere in your home directory, or a text file with the browser name in it? Or what? Thanks! linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Epson Scanner V500 Isn't Detected
by Mark Misulich 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 23:30 -0500, Doug wrote: > On 06/19/2017 06:22 AM, Mark Misulich wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 12:17 +0200, Aaron Digulla wrote: > > > > > > Am Sonntag, Juni 18, 2017 23:39 CEST, Mark Misulich <munguanaweza > > > @gma > > > il.com> schrieb: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a kernel/sane bug which breaks many USB scanners. Make > > > sure > > > you have at least version 1.0.25 of SANE installed. > > I installed sane-backends version 1.0.27 from Sauerland OBS > > repository, > > but the scanner still isn't recognized in yast Scanner > > configuration > > window. > > > > Driver Scanner > > epkowa Epson (unknown model) at epkowah:usb001:004 > > Not Configured EPSON Scanner USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 > > [EPSON], > > product=0x0130 > > [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:004 > > > I checked out the site for the manual. Yes, it's USB only. I think > you said > it works in Windows. Have you tried to install WINE in your Linux, > and > then install the Windows software on WINE. Maybe that'll work. > > --doug Thanks for the tip about using the windows driver in Wine. I'll give it a shot this weekend. I am on a business trip at the moment and won't get a chance to work on the computer at home again for a couple of days. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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