Does anyone know the best way of getting support for Fn keys? (both on my Vaio S1XP and more generally)
In my case, I've loaded the sonypi module but I can't assign the Fn volume shortcuts to the volume actions in Gnome, for instance, as they aren't detected.
There has been support for this when I've been running other distributions, so I know it can be done. I'm happy to try and do some of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start.
Adam
Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
On 11/20/06, bloch@verdurin.com bloch@verdurin.com wrote:
Does anyone know the best way of getting support for Fn keys? (both on my Vaio S1XP and more generally)
In my case, I've loaded the sonypi module but I can't assign the Fn volume shortcuts to the volume actions in Gnome, for instance, as they aren't detected.
There has been support for this when I've been running other distributions, so I know it can be done. I'm happy to try and do some of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start.
Adam
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Dnia środa, 22 listopada 2006 15:44, bloch@verdurin.com napisał:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Julian Yap wrote:
Try the menu System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
The problem is that these key combinations are not detected, so I can't assign them to anything.
Are You sure? Have You tried with 'xev' for example?
On Monday 20 November 2006 23:31, bloch@verdurin.com wrote:
There has been support for this when I've been running other distributions, so I know it can be done. I'm happy to try and do some of the work myself but am not quite sure where to start.
I have a thinkpad, for which there is a special application (tpb - thinkpad buttons), that somehow manages to get the information. Maybe there is something like this for sony notebooks, too. Some other keys provide acpi events (tail -f /var/log/acpid shows them), which can run scripts in /etc/acpi/events. Also you can look with xev whether or not the buttons provide xevents, then you can map them with xmodmap e.g. to F13 or something and use them this way.
There is a lot of documentation for thinkpads on http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki, maybe you can use something of it, too.
And "yum search sony" spits out: spicctrl.i386 1.9-5.fc6 extras Matched from: Sony Vaio laptop SPIC control program spicctrl queries and sets a variety of parameters on Sony Vaio laptop computers, including AC Power status, battery status, screen brightness, and bluetooth device power status http://popies.net/sonypi/
On http://popies.net/sonypi/ you also find some information about using special keys.
Regards, Till
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