Tpb

2007-01-15T12:20:55Z

LeJo: Note about tpb and xmodmap

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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.

TPB has been ported to KDE, yielding the [[KMilo]] plugin.
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=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/

=== Status ===
Version 0.6.4

=== Packages ===
* {{Debian}} packages are available: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/tpb.html
* {{Gentoo}} ebuild: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-laptop;name=tpb
* {{Redhat}} packages: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/tpb/

=== 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 ===
* [http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/doc/tpb.1.html Man-Page]

=== Sample configuration ===
* [http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/doc/tpbrc.html /etc/tpbrc]
* Note that on some systems the "nvram" module will need to be loaded before tpb will work, as tpb needs to write to this device. If you run tpb in user-space, you will need write permissions (and, possibly, read); it is probably best to simply add users to a "nvram" group.
* Also note that using tpb and xmodmap altogether may cause some problems. For example, on a ThinkPad T60p running under Debian GNU/Linux (Etch, Testing), to map the two buttons next to the up arrow to some function, adding the right lines to ~/.Xmodmap may not be sufficient: you need to specify in your /etc/tpbrc (or ~/.tpbrc) the following line:
XEVENTS OFF
(You just need to uncomment this line in the sample configuration file.)

=== Contact ===
Contact the author at [mailto:markus.braun@krawel.de markus.braun@krawel.de].



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Talk:Tpb

2007-01-15T12:10:55Z

LeJo: Note about adding users to a nvram group

"''Note that on some systems the "nvram" module will need to be loaded before tpb will work, as tpb needs to write to this device. If you run tpb in user-space, you will need write permissions (and, possibly, read); it is probably best to simply add users to a "nvram" group.''"

Indeed, it may be much easier to get tpb to work properly if you add your user to the nvram group.

LeJo

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