-----Original Message-----
From: M Harris
I have a Dell keyboard with home, refresh, close, back and forward buttons on it. These buttons do not work when pushed. Is there a way to make these buttons work on SLED10 with firefox2? Yes,
... the first thing you need to do is determine whether the keys are visible to the kernel... this is easy: From a black screen alt-F1 console use the showkey command... do not do this from a terminal on the desktop.... With showkey running press all the the special multimedia keys... and look for responses. If the key does nothing, then press the F10 key to look at the kernel messages... the kernel will tell you whether the key was recognized and what its scancode is. You can add easily scancodes to the kernel with setkeycodes command. Next, you will need to map the kernel keycode to the X events you want for firefox... or multimedia... whatever... using xev. Run xev from a terminal on your desktop. It will open a window that you will focus with your mouse and then type into it... the keycodes will appear for keypress and keyrelease... write them down... you then map those events to the action you want using the keyboard utilities in the control panel. All of the buttons on all keyboards can be mapped to do anything you want to do... sometimes its a little work... but it is always doable in linux. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< Kernel see the strokes and all is well, except, in control center, i do not see where to map the numbers to the buttons. I looked in the "keyboard" applet and i was able to map the vol buttons in the "shortcuts" applet. Where exactly do i map the browser buttons to the browser? Thanks again for the help -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org