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Can anybody recomend a good program for helping me to map
the hot-keys (my-documents, messenger, browser,...) on my
keyboard to suitable linux-applications (probably KDE-apps).

I would also be interested in a similar program for doing
the same for the virtual terminals (non-X), but then
naturaly mapped to non-X applications. If there is a program
that could do both (X and non-X), that would perhaps be
preferble...

BTW, any HOWTOs or anything that describes how to map
hot-keys to commands out there?

-Koppe (very tired of "Unknown Scancode" errors... :-)

On 2004-11-05, Koppe74 <koppe74@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anybody recomend a good program for helping me to map
> the hot-keys (my-documents, messenger, browser,...) on my
> keyboard to suitable linux-applications (probably KDE-apps).
>
> I would also be interested in a similar program for doing
> the same for the virtual terminals (non-X), but then
> naturaly mapped to non-X applications. If there is a program
> that could do both (X and non-X), that would perhaps be
> preferble...
>
> BTW, any HOWTOs or anything that describes how to map
> hot-keys to commands out there?
>
> -Koppe (very tired of "Unknown Scancode" errors... :-)

Check out http://wmalms.tripod.com/#XHKEYS
Only works in X though.

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Toan Tran
Sensor Solution Division, Agilent Technologies
ttran@agilent.com

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On 5 Nov 2004 10:19:19 GMT, Toan Tran staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> On 2004-11-05, Koppe74 <koppe74@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can anybody recomend a good program for helping me to map the
>> hot-keys (my-documents, messenger, browser,...) on my keyboard to
>> suitable linux-applications (probably KDE-apps).

gtk-xbindkeys or xbindkeys.
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , group comp.os.linux.x ,
keyword "xbindkeys", and read the messages there that'll tell you how to
set it up and configure its xbindkeysrc file. If you can figure out how
to tell the computer to do something on the command line, you can make
xbindkeys do that with a key (or key combination, or mouse button)
press.

>> I would also be interested in a similar program for doing the same
>> for the virtual terminals (non-X)

man showkey loadkeys
man 5 keymaps

....but really, you have X, so don't bother with the virtual terminals.
xterm/konsole is much better then a virtual terminal since it's
dynamically resizable, has persistent history, and so forth. IMHO,
virtual terminals should be used only when necessary (disaster recovery,
initial installation, machine with little RAM/CPU).

>> If there is a program that could do both (X and non-X), that would
>> perhaps be preferble...

Doesn't exist. X is totally different from a virtual terminal.

> Check out http://wmalms.tripod.com/#XHKEYS Only works in X though.

This might also be useful.

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