Nesnej Trick
November 4th, 2008, 08:31 PM
Today I upgraded Kubuntu to Intrepid Ibex and after getting to the desktop (no minor feat, but let's not go into that) I wanted to listen to some music. I hit the Play/Pause key on my keyboard... and nothing happened.
So, I started my detective work. Keytouch and its associated daemon keytouchd was running and the conf file was intact, so that didn't seem to be the problem.
I fired up xev to see what key codes I would get when going through the keys. To my surprise I discovered that the multimedia keys appear to have several bindings, most of them quite bizarre. E.g. the Media key registers simultaneously as "XF86AudioMedia", "Alt_L" and "right". Play/Pause gets registered as "XF86AudioPause", "Ctrl_L" and "s". Most programmes hence interpret the Play/Pause key as "Ctrl+S", which is mildly put annoying.:mad:
My keyboard is a Logitech Internet Navigator and the selected layout is Swedish-nodeadkeys. The question is, how do I get the Multimedia keys to register as XF86[something] only in KDE?
So, I started my detective work. Keytouch and its associated daemon keytouchd was running and the conf file was intact, so that didn't seem to be the problem.
I fired up xev to see what key codes I would get when going through the keys. To my surprise I discovered that the multimedia keys appear to have several bindings, most of them quite bizarre. E.g. the Media key registers simultaneously as "XF86AudioMedia", "Alt_L" and "right". Play/Pause gets registered as "XF86AudioPause", "Ctrl_L" and "s". Most programmes hence interpret the Play/Pause key as "Ctrl+S", which is mildly put annoying.:mad:
My keyboard is a Logitech Internet Navigator and the selected layout is Swedish-nodeadkeys. The question is, how do I get the Multimedia keys to register as XF86[something] only in KDE?