How To Utilize Your New Multimedia Keyboard Under Linux
Xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using its configuration file. It does not depend on the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys.
Prerequisites:
a keyboard with special/multimedia buttons
xbindkeys
working X Window, doesn't matter if it is KDE, Gnome or any other
Links:
http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html
Installation
Now you are familiar with the scope of this tuto, so let's start! First of all xbindkeys can be obtained from two sources:
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Anyone tried keytouch?
See here:
http://keytouch.sourceforge.net/
Keytouch detects keys on my keyboard that do not show in xev. In fact, keytouch detects keys on my keyboard that do not show in xev NOR dmesg!
For example a hardware toggle key, which switches the wireless on and off, alternately returns keycodes which are then allocated to an echo piped through "osd" to put a message on the screen warning me that, like a klutz, I just turned off my wireless. Similar with Keypad on/off. And all the setting up is through the GUI. Although writing out the actual program line you want to run may be a little harder, but there's loads of pre-installed stuff like "Amarok Play" and "Zoom In" etc.