Steve Mading wrote:
>
> Okay, so I recently got one of those new keyboards that has all
> sorts of weird proprietary extra keys on it, marked with things
> on them like "e-mail" and "favorites" and so on. With the vendor-
> supplied driver, these do things in Windows, but of course they
> don't do anything with the generic keyboard driver for linux. I
> know that in theory I can figure out what the key codes are that are
> sent when I press them. The question I have is, does there exist
> some sort of method in linux for watching the keyboard globally,
> and reacting to certain keycodes with global actions I can define
> arbitrarily?

Yes.
I see Andy Fraser has given you some ideas on how to do this in
X-windows (something I know nothing about) so I'll tell you what
to look at if you want to do this at the console.

man showkeys
man dumpkeys
man loadkeys
man keymaps

Gord Torrie

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