Note: I chose the name "LogiSearch" arbitrarily. You can give it any name you like, so long as you keep a note of that name - and remember it is case sensitive (as with most things on Linux).
3) ...
Edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB (part of the XFree86-libs-data package).
Choose a range of identifiers not already in use, on my system I chose 10090001 upwards (this is a hex value).
Add the following line:
LogiSearch :10090001
I found that the KeysymDB file already contains a ton of useful keywords, you don't have to make up your own. Or rather, making up your own is more work with little benefit :)
Quit gconf-editor and logout (restart X), no need to reboot.
There's no need to restart X, either, gconf-editor's changes take effect immediately.
Here's a sample from my configs:
Here's a sample from my configs, for a Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard:
/etc/X11/Xmodmap
/home/rbpark/.Xmodmap keycode 187=F13 keycode 136=F14 keycode 135=F15 keycode 119=F16 keycode 120=F17 keycode 121=F18 keycode 122=F19 keycode 194=F20 keycode 195=F21 keycode 163=F22 keycode 215=F23 keycode 216=F24
keycode 101=XF86Documents keycode 228=XF86Pictures keycode 188=XF86Music keycode 160=XF86AudioMute keycode 162=XF86AudioPlay keycode 164=XF86AudioStop keycode 176=XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 174=XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 144=XF86AudioPrev keycode 153=XF86AudioNext keycode 237=XF86AudioMedia keycode 236=XF86Mail keycode 178=XF86HomePage keycode 133=XF86Messenger keycode 161=XF86Calculator keycode 150=XF86LogOff keycode 223=XF86Standby
Also, here's ~/.Xclients: xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
I didn't make any changes to this file.
gconf settings global_keybindings
run_command_2 XF86Documents run_command_3 XF86Pictures run_command_4 XF86Music run_command_5 XF86AudioMute run_command_6 XF86AudioPlay run_command_7 XF86AudioStop run_command_8 XF86AudioRaiseVolume run_command_9 XF86AudioLowerVolume run_command_10 XF86AudioPrev run_command_11 XF86AudioNext run_command_12 XF86AudioMedia run_command_13 XF86Mail run_command_14 XF86HomePage run_command_15 XF86Messenger run_command_16 XF86Calculator run_command_17 XF86LogOff run_command_18 XF86Standby
keybinding_commands
command_2 nautilus --no-desktop command_3 nautilus --no-desktop /home/rbpark/images command_4 nautilus --no-desktop /home/rbpark/music command_5 mute-toggle command_6 xmms --play-pause command_7 xmms --stop command_8 aumix-minimal -v+1 command_9 aumix-minimal -v-1 command_10 xmms --rew command_11 xmms --fwd command_12 gmplayer command_13 launchmoz -mail command_14 launchmoz command_15 gaim command_16 gnome-calculator command_17 gnome-session-save --kill command_18 xscreensaver-command -lock
# xmms-toggle-mute.sh
~/bin/mute-toggle: #!/bin/bash
NEW=$(aumix -vq|perl -pe 's/^\D+(\d+).+/\1/;') OLD=$(cat ~/.mute-toggle 2>/dev/null)
if [ "$NEW" == "0" ]; then aumix -v$OLD else echo $NEW > ~/.mute-toggle aumix -v0 fi
# xmms-toggle-play.sh
XMMS can already do this itself (xmms --play-pause). In fact, xmms-shell is entirely unnecessary...
Launchmoz is a script that launches firebird/thunderbird.
Read about it here:
http://slashdot.org/~Feztaa/journal/54469 (there's a download link too)
I assume there are ways of getting all this to work under different window managers, YMMV.
Yeah, metacity makes it difficult by requiring you use gconf-editor, KDE makes this kind of stuff fairly straightforward.
(anxiously awaiting the release of KDE 3.2 :)
