Tpb

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tpb - Thinkpad Buttons

TPB is a little program that enables you to use the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys.

With TPB it is possible to bind a program to the ThinkPad, Mail, Home and Search button. TPB can also run a callback program on each state change with the changed state and the new state as options. So it is possible to trigger several actions on different events. TPB has a on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, brightness and some other informations. Furthermore TPB supports a software mixer, as the R series ThinkPads have no hardware mixer to change the volume.

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Project Homepage / Availability

http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/

Status

Version 0.6.4

Packages

CVS

The sources can be checked out through anonymous CVS with the following instruction set:

export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/tpb co tpb 

Documentation

Sample configuration

  • /etc/tpbrc
  • Note that on some systems the "nvram" module will need to be loaded before tpb will work.

Contact

Contact the author at markus.braun@krawel.de.