Q: Apple KB Media keys?

Christopher TESSONE yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Sep 22 14:00:02 2003


>>>>> "Albrecht" == Albrecht Dre <Albrecht> writes:

    Albrecht> Is it possible to use the "media keys" (CD eject, volume
    Albrecht> up/down, mute) with a linux application? I tried the
    Albrecht> gnome 2.2 multimedia keys and ikeyd- 0.5.8, but none of
    Albrecht> them works. Xev doesn't report any keycodes for them
    Albrecht> either. IIRC, I *had* some of them working before I
    Albrecht> upgraded to kernel 2.4.22-ben2. Any ideas?

The software that does that for me on my iBook is called pbbuttonsd
and gtkpbbuttonsd.

Cheers,
Chris

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Christopher A. Tessone
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BA Student, Russian and Mathematics
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