[Sheflug] Using fancy keyboards

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
    I inadvertly deleted the previous couple of messages, one of them
being about using posh'n'fancy keys in modern keyboards. While no
doubt someone will come up and say that you can do all that with
Ctrl+x+y+z in X/Emacs :-))), I thought I'd inform that at least in
Debian, there is a package called hot keys that does just that. 

    From the package description:
Description: A hotkeys daemon for your Internet/multimedia keyboard in X
 This program sits at the back and listens for the "special" hotkeys
 that you won't normally use on your Internet/Multimedia keyboards.
 The buttons perform their intended behaviors, such as volume up and
 down, mute the speaker, launch applications, etc. It has On-screen
 display (OSD) to show the volume, program that's being started, etc.
 
 It features an XML-based keycode configuration file format, which
 makes it possible to define the hotkeys to launch any programs you
 want.


 Presumably this is also available in other distros. 

    Regards,
    José
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