Thanks Wayne, I'll check it out on my laptop. I'm a little concerned, because lineak seems to want X generated keycodes, but xev does not respond to my special keys. I'll dig into more though. --rick On Thursday 16 December 2004 3:46 pm, Wayne Leutwyler wrote: > Rick Wagner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My laptop has several special function keys, which I would like to assign > > as actions in KDE. When I press the keys, I get a message on the text > > console to the effect of (sorry, I don't have the exact text, but this > > should be close enough): "Undefined keyboard scancode 65, use setkeycodes > > to assign." > > > > man setkeycodes says: "The keycodes of X have nothing to do with > > those of Linux...", so it sounds like setkeycodes won't get my keys to X. > > How do I assign scancodes to an X keycode, and how do I find an unused > > keycode I can assign it to? Once I have X seeing the keys, it should be > > no differant than assigning any other key in KDE. > > > > Thanks, > > --rick > > Check out this site: http://lineak.sourceforge.net/ > > -- > Wayne Leutwyler - RHCT, CNA > Linux Admin / DBA > Columbus OH. USA > http://linux.is-a-geek.net
