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August 24th, 2010, 03:42 PM
I've found many threads about this subject, but nothing conclusive,
and so far nothing really worked for me.
I'm using a logitech wave keyboard. Apparently the keyboard is known to X. I'd like to be able to use the extra keys it has.
So eventually I settled to something that somewhat works: xbindkeys
I was able to bind some keys to commands that launch applications. Great.
But then I wanted to bind the zoom in/out keys to a generic scroll-up/down. I set the zoom in key, to generate a xvkbd -text "\[Up]" event.
This does not work.
I'm using 10.04, with KDE.
To me, this is an example to the backward condition linux desktop is at, compared to windows. I'd expect at least a definitive howto that works. Instead there are plenty of community threads, and lots of frustration.
and so far nothing really worked for me.
I'm using a logitech wave keyboard. Apparently the keyboard is known to X. I'd like to be able to use the extra keys it has.
So eventually I settled to something that somewhat works: xbindkeys
I was able to bind some keys to commands that launch applications. Great.
But then I wanted to bind the zoom in/out keys to a generic scroll-up/down. I set the zoom in key, to generate a xvkbd -text "\[Up]" event.
This does not work.
I'm using 10.04, with KDE.
To me, this is an example to the backward condition linux desktop is at, compared to windows. I'd expect at least a definitive howto that works. Instead there are plenty of community threads, and lots of frustration.