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Subject: Re: Support for multimedia keys
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: 2004-01-27 20:39:54
Message-ID: 200401271539.54173.staikos () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 15:34, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > We actually have some of this already in CVS as part of kmilo. Not
> > all hardware actually has these keys map to keyboard events, ironically,
> > so it's hard to support them generically through a keyboard-style
> > interface. That's why I created kmilo. There is a generic XF86
> > multimedia key plugin for kmilo. Will that conflict with what you have?
>
> Hmms. Very likely. But I'm not sure I entirely understand what you said.
> There are keyboards with keys that are not handled like keys, so XFree
> can't handle them itself, even if it has/gets keyboard maps for those
> keyboards? That sucks :(.
Correct, they generally require special kernel modules. See for instance
the modules in kdeutils/kmilo/.
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George Staikos
KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/
Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/
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