[TriLUG] Speaking of seemingly useless buttons...

[Beth Ellison]

>Now why don't Gnome and KDE use these by default?

Because they're fly like that. Keeping you on your toes, yo.

Beth



>
>CJK
>
>On Mon, 26 November 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:
>
> >
> > Don't know *how* to do it, but I know that the keys work automagically 
>with
> > some distributions...
> >
> > Here's a good starting point:
> >   http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html
> >
> > and from:
> >   http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-2.html#ss2.20
> >
> > 2.20 Microsoft Natural keyboard
> >
> > This keyboard has three additional keys, with escaped scancodes e0 5b
> > (LeftWindow), e0 5c (RightWindow), e0 5d (Menu). The kscancodes (see 
>below)
> > are e0 1f, e0 27 and e0 2f, respectively. The USB key codes are usage 
>page
> > 0x07, usage index 227, 231, 101 (decimal), respectively. Microsoft
> > describes the intended use in detail. Both Windows keys are intended to 
>be
> > used as modifier keys, like both shift and control and alt keys. The 
>Menu
> > key may be modified by shift etc.
> >
> > ====
> >
> > Jaimime Livingston did a lot of research on this when he setup his
> > workstation.  He also figured out how to get all the buttons on his
> > Kensington mouse to work (and do what he wants them to do!).
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On Monday 26 November 2001 06:23, Christopher Knowles wrote:
> > > I've got a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, not the new one with all 
>special
> > > buttons, but it does have that Windows key.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there was a way to get the windows key on the 104
> > > keyboards to do something under X?
> > >
> > > (Of course, I like the idea of the one with all the special buttons, 
>hit
> > > a key and it checks e-mail... etc.  Any support for one of those 
>either?)
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > CJK
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