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‎Got R51's "Access IBM" key working in Openbox (key="XF86Launch1"): forgot my sig, whoops

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‎Got R51's "Access IBM" key working in Openbox (key="XF86Launch1"): new section

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‎XF86Back in Firefox

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‎Some links and info

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‎Some links and info

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‎Some links and info

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‎Some links and info

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‎Some links and info

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 == Got R51's "Access IBM" key working in Openbox (key="XF86Launch1") ==
-Noting it here because it isn't mentioned in the article. XF86LaunchA didn't work for me, but xev told me my Access IBM key was '''XF86Launch1''', and sure enough it worked.
+Noting it here because it isn't mentioned in the article. XF86LaunchA didn't work for me, but xev told me my Thinkpad R51's Access IBM key was '''XF86Launch1''', and sure enough it worked.
-I'm on Lubuntu so my Openbox config is located at {{path|~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml}}. Here's what I added:
+I'm on Lubuntu (14.04) so my Openbox config is located at {{path|~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml}}. Here's what I added:
      <keybind key="XF86Launch1">
        <action name="Execute">
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        </action>
      </keybind>

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	--[[User:Dveeden\|Dveeden]] 10:39, 3 March 2011 (CET)		--[[User:Dveeden\|Dveeden]] 10:39, 3 March 2011 (CET)
		+
		+	== Got R51's "Access IBM" key working in Openbox (key="XF86Launch1") ==
		+
		+	Noting it here because it isn't mentioned in the article. XF86LaunchA didn't work for me, but xev told me my Access IBM key was '''XF86Launch1''', and sure enough it worked.
		+
		+	I'm on Lubuntu so my Openbox config is located at {{path\|~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml}}. Here's what I added:
		+	<keybind key="XF86Launch1">
		+	<action name="Execute">
		+	<command>xmessage "You just pressed XF86Launch1"</command>
		+	</action>
		+	</keybind>

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	[[User:rdskaroff+debian@gmail.com\|Bob]]		[[User:rdskaroff+debian@gmail.com\|Bob]]
		+
		+
		+	== Microphone Mute Key ==
		+	I've filled a bug report ([https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/728310 LP728310]) for the missing microphone mute support in Ubuntu 10.10.
		+
		+	This bug report contains some info about how to get a bit of the functionality working.
		+
		+	--[[User:Dveeden\|Dveeden]] 10:39, 3 March 2011 (CET)

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	--[[User:BDKMPSS\|BDKMPSS]] June 04 2007		--[[User:BDKMPSS\|BDKMPSS]] June 04 2007
		+	----
		+
		+	Yes, this hint should be dropped. This was bug in firefox, fixed long time ago:
		+	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66519
		+
		+	It is fixed in firefox above 3.5 (and nobody should use older versions, really).
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-R61 7732-CTO,
+* R61 7732-CTO
-BIOS 7LETC4WW (2.24), EC 7KHT24WW-1.08,
+* BIOS 7LETC4WW (2.24), EC 7KHT24WW-1.08
-Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60GHz, stepping 0d,
+* Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60GHz, stepping 0d
-G Mushkin RAM,
+* 4G Mushkin RAM
-G WDC WD3200BEKT,
+* 320G WDC WD3200BEKT
-Linux version 2.6.30-4-amd64,
+* Linux version 2.6.30-4-amd64
-kde 3.5.10,
+* kde 3.5.10
-Packages: stable 1473, testing 473, unstable 199
+* Debian Stable
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 thanks, [[User:Nagyv|Nagyv]]
-== Some links and info ==
+== Who is the boss? Your Thinkpad's special keys or you? ==
 The x tools setxkbmap and xbindkeys along with the kde 3.5 control center keyboard shortcuts and application links in ~/.kde/Autostart are the tools that I use to do every keyboard thing I want with my

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 ) determine what functionality you want the key combinations to provide
-) use kde keyboard shortcuts to map key combinations (ex fn-F5) to your shortcut scheme. If it doesn't have something you want, like control of amarok with the multimedia keys you either need to create a menu item for the application and a command shortcut or you can use xbindkeys-config to do it.
+) use kde keyboard shortcuts to map key combinations (ex fn-F5) to your shortcut scheme. If it doesn't have something you want, like control of amarok with the multimedia keys you either need to create a menu item for the application and a command shortcut or you can use xbindkeys-config to do it. You can't do both.
 ) I used xbindkeys-config for a few things but it became a little difficult to use so I created menu items. I later realized that xbindkeys-config and xev didn't see the same keys. I had to map fn-F4 with xbindkeys-config and fn-F12 with a command shortcut.

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 ) read the above references!! don't email me with questions that have answers in the text.
-) set your keyboard properly. I looked at /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml <name> tag values, then created in ~/.kde/Autostart with konqueror a "link to application" to the statement 'setxkbmap -model thinkpad60 -layout us'
+) set your keyboard properly. I looked at /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml <name> tag values, then created in ~/.kde/Autostart with konqueror a "link to application" for the statement 'setxkbmap -model thinkpad60 -layout us'
 ) use the above xev|etc. command to find the keycodes for the keys you need to map.

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	You must! learn to use Google effectively		You must! learn to use Google effectively
		+

	An important command for getting this together was on the HotkeyResearch page:		An important command for getting this together was on the HotkeyResearch page:

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 man xbindkeys-config
-anything else you need would be in /usr/share/doc/ on Debian or Google
+anything else you need would be in /usr/share/doc/ on Debian
 An important command for getting this together was on the HotkeyResearch page: