Date: 01 Jan 2004 13:14:55 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XF86Keys. Message-ID: <441xqjlen4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031231004651.GC3841@lewiz.org> References: <20031231004651.GC3841@lewiz.org>
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Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> writes: > I have a funky keyboard with lots of buttons along the top (like Back, > Forward, Stop, Refresh, etc.). I use a number of these in fluxbox by > defining them in my keys file. > > However -- can anybody suggest a way I can make the XF86Back key work > in firebird? Previously I have hacked the keyboard file so that it > generates an ALT+Left (essentially back) but I wonder if there is an > easier way. That way seems pretty easy to me... > Maybe I should email the firebird developers and see if they would > consider adding native support for this key? I understand quite a few > keyboards provide it now, through XFree86. Is this a good idea? You could try, but I don't think it will really help much. Different keyboards seem to generate different events for those keys (which is to say, they're not standardized)...
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