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So many keys

2005/06/07 filed under /linux

The local supermarket had a special offer today: wireless keyboard and mouse (Trust) for cheap, so I finally said goodbye (for the time being) to my good old, indestructible, clicketyclick IBM keyboard.

This keyboard has many extra keys (Refresh, Email, Home, Calculator, Play, Stop, Volume up/down etc.) and -of course- the infamous MS Windows keys between the Alt and Ctrl keys.

As usual, I buy hardware and then realize that there might be a possibility that it won't work well with Linux. This set (keyboard and mouse) however posed no problem whatsoever. Just plug and ... type!

But, when you have extra keys, you want to use them, so I looked at my first stop in such quests http://freshmeat.net/. There I found the LinEAK project (Linux support for Easy Access and Internet Keyboards). Easy to setup and easy to work with. Before I knew it, I had my dubious Perl and shell scripts run at the press of a button!

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Joffie wrote at 2005-06-08 18:06:

Also check out the xmms-itouch plugin. It works real well too. (Though you need xmms running for the keys to work).

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