Hotkeys

The hotkeys on MS Natural Pro don't work under the default keyboard driver.

Hotkeys 0.5.5 at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/hotkeys.html and 0.5.4 at http://freshmeat.net/projects/hotkeys/ is designed to do it, but I couldn't make it work (4 Dec 01). Along the way, I installed libxml-devel and libxml2-devel, which I found described at SuSE's site and downloaded from the SuSE mirror at ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/suse/suse/. They installed fine and gave me "xml-config" and "xml2-config" -- scripts used by hotkeys. I also downloaded and installed Berkeley Database Library 2.7.7 and 4.0.14 (db4) from Sleepy Cat. Hotkeys ./configure didn't find either one -- it could be that you simply need to run ldconfig, the library updater, and /sbin/SuSEconfig.

State of installation: Attempt to remove libdb 2.7.7, which you don't need. Wait until hotkeys supports db4 and make a fresh attempt.

See also the discussion of SuSE's APMD package, which could be mapped onto your Sleep hotkey.

24 January 2003 update

Lots of resources

xev (X Event View)
xmodmap (X Modify Mapping)

Can be included in .xinitrc

xmodmap -e "keycode 59 = BackSpace"
xmodmap -e "keycode 125 = Delete"

-- see http://www.rapierbit.org/linux/winmgrs.html for an example of
an .xinitrc file that lets you start different display managers easily.

How to make Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro hot keys work in Linux
http://home.attbi.com/~brucec/writings/linux-hotkeys/

Howto on keycodes:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-2.html

Run xev from an xterm and press one of the hot keys. (I still got no
response from Fn+F3).

http://shift.free.fr/?item=ordi_clavier_logitech

Utiliser un clavier multimédia sous linux
http://kadreg.free.fr/cla/

xbindkeys
http://www.netchampagne.com/xbindkeys_config/

Lineak -- MS NatPro and generic multimedia keys (check this out -- there's a deb of a KDE version)
http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs
http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=showdoc&docid=LinEAK_support_HOWTO&doctitle=Keyboard%20support%20HOWTO
You can get lineakd (0.4pre3-5 Debian:unstable) directly -- see also
http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=download

I installed lineakd 0.4pre3-5, lineakconfig 0.3.2-4, and klineakconfig_0.5.1-1 (the latter by
download), but they didn't run well and I removed them. Just use hotkeys, but check up on these guys occasionally.