Re: Logitec Itouch keyboard

[Chris Watt <cnww chebucto ns ca>]

At 18:17 02/09/00 +0000, Paul Lewis wrote:
>I have just bought a Logitech cordless ITouch keyboard.
>In most respects the thing works fine, however there are
>a number of so called 'multimedia' keys I would like to have
>access to.
>
>My questions, is there a driver for RH6.0 for this keyboard
>or is there any way to discover the codes the keys supply
>and reprogram them to do something I would find to be 
>useful?

Yes, from the CLUI point of view you would run showkey and then press the
various keys to see what keycode(s) they send, then you can use setkeycodes
to bind them to specific meanings for the CLUI. I think there's a separate
configuration file somewhere for binding macro keys for X, but I'm not sure
if or how that works. This assumes, of course, that it actually is sending
"normal" keycodes when you press those keys. If it's doing something
totally proprietary this may not work.

p.s. I'd like to hear how this works out, the idea of a cordless keyboard
doesn't sound too bad to me, provided I could have a cordless monitor as
well. . .

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