Using extra keys in CVS?

[Andrew Conkling]

Some time ago (probably on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:35:39 +0200)
LiNuCe had the occasion to say the following:
> 
>     If you look at the default XFCE keythemerc, you see that there is 10 
> "all purpose" shortcuts (shortcut_*_key). If you have correct bindings 
> in your ~/.Xmodmap (each multimedia keysym associated with its 
> corresponding keycode), you can directly put the multimedia keysym in 
> the shortcut_*_key. For example, for my mail multidmedia key, in my 
> .Xmodmap, I have :
> 
>        keycode 236 = XF86Mail
> 
>     Note that 236 is the keycode for my mail multimedia key as xev 
> reported it, and XF86Mail is a predefined keysym to be binded to a 
> keycode (see below).  Then in my custom keythemerc (I copied and edited 
> the default one in ~/.themes/xfwm4/linuce.keys/keythemerc), I have the 
> following shortcut :
> 
> 
>        shortcut_1_key=XF86Mail
>        shortcut_1_exec=mozilla -mail
> 
>     In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, you will find predefined multimedia 
> keys keysyms : you just have to bind them to the approriate multimedia 
> keys keycodes  - at least if xev reports that your multimedia keys are 
> not already binded to keysyms : it displays "0 NoSymbol" for the 
> keycode/keysym pair.
> 
>     Note that you DO NOT have to edit your XKeysymDB to add multimedia 
> keysyms : this is a system file that can be overwritten when you update 
> your distribution packages. Use predefined multimedia keys keysyms : 
> they start with 1008FF01 (XF86ModeLock) and you will surely find all 
> multimedia key in existence (XF86AudioLowerVolume, XF86Standby, 
> XF86AudioLowerVolume, XF86AudioMute, XF86AudioRaiseVolume, 
> XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, XF86AudioPrev, XF86AudioNext, 
> XF86HomePage, XF86Mail, XF86Search, ... and many many more).
> 
>     However, with XFCE4 (in fact this is a XFWM4 limitation), you can 
> "only" define 10 shortcuts, so if you have more than 10 multimedia keys, 
> you should use the xbindkeys program :
> 
>        http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

Thanks; that did the trick!  Now if only the other three keys on my keyboard were recognised.... :)

Cheers,
Andrew