On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:46:37 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 03 August 2009 22:06:01 you wrote: > > "showkey -s" gives me no output at all when I press F10/Spell. > > This is because it's USB. From man showkey: > > "The raw scan codes are available only on AT and PS/2 keyboards" That's demonstrably inaccurate. The other keys on this keyboard give me results when I press them under "showkey -s". It's just F10/Spell that has no output. > Ok, so then the button does have a keycode, after all. One more reason not to > trust xev... <sigh> :-) Did you try to put it into xmodmaprc and see if that > works? xmodmap -e "keycode 432 = F10" xev shows no output when I press F10/Spell after entering the above command. xmodmap -pke shows keycodes only up to 255, so 432 is probably an invalid number for that purpose anyway, though it doesn't show any error when I assign it as shown above. I think I'm outta luck. I have no idea what's so special about F10/Spell when all of the other F-keys are recognized by xev. > It's ok, since the keyboard is USB. The kernel seems to have something like a > reverse lookup table for keycode-to-scancodes queries if it uses a USB > keyboard. It seems the table is not complete, but it shouldn't be used by > anything anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem. Since the other F-keys work, maybe there's something missing in that kernel table, somehow. > The problem, if present, is with X, ignoring or swallowing this particular > keycode. And only that keycode. > Did you happen to try that button in showkey? Does that produce a keycode? No keycode. It just turns the F-lock light on and off. I think it's some kind of a hardware switch. The keyboard documentation implies that it's a hardware switch that's not under any kind of software control. > Consider yourself lucky. One of my keyborads doesn't have it, and I'm > completely blind as to what will happen when I press F4 or such. As I am not > the only one using the system, refraining from touching F-lock key doesn't > help much. I never look at my keyboard when I'm typing so it's always good for a surprise if I hit the F-lock key by accident, especially because I'm not using that area of the keyboard too much in the first place. I might turn it off by mistake and not notice for the next three hours. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
