Hi - I am using a MS desktop elite keyboard with various shortcut keys. If I go to system--->preferences--->keyboard shortcuts, most (lthough not all) of these keys generate a keycode when pressed - for example, the Play/pause button generates 0xa2. However, none of the media players I have tried pick up on the keyboard mappings defined through this GUI.
To fix, I tried using xkeybinding coupled with xte so that each time I pressed, for example, the play/pause media button, a space bar keycode was generated to pause/play the video.
However, xkeybindings did not recognise the keycode 0xa2. When I checked usigng xev, for a standard key I would get:
KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
root 0x1a6, subw 0x0, time 24978946, (153,486), root1578,546),
state 0x0, keycode 41 (keysym 0x66, f), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (66) "f"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (66) "f"
XFilterEvent returns: False
But for the media keys I would get something like:
KeymapNotify event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
No keycode...likewise if I use xbindkeys -k it does not see the media keys at all...
Cheers,
ben
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I found that using the graphical keyboard shortcuts utility in Ubuntu (system -->preferences-->keyboard shortcuts) prevented anything else from using those keys, while also not doing anything useful with them! I unmapped them from there, and then was able to use xbindkeys -mk to identify the keycodes, and assigne them to the commands I wanted using xte using the following config file:
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