rebinding keys to functions

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:52:56PM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
> My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys.
> How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed?

That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window
system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console).

First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X
you can test that with xev(1).

How you can bind keypresses to commands in X depends on the window manager or
desktop environment you are using. See the revelant documentation.

On my laptop (centrino 2 platform, PM 45 chipset), using Fn combination works
to change speaker volume and screen brightness, but this is done outside the
OS. The X server doesn't even 'see' those keypresses.

Roland
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