How to assing a key to an event

Hi,

I have HP nx9010 and I want to assign the keys for volume up and down in Kamix.

I have downloaded and installed omnibook module.

i am not sure in which file to put it, so i am inserting it manually right now.

also the readme, it is written to write options apmemu=1 and so on , in /etc/module.conf,

but i do not see any difference when i am doing this.

now when i run xev, i got code key values for the buttons?

so how to assign them, because kamix is not able to get them?

also i have tried lineakd , but it just crashes

Have you tried "khotkeys" which should be in your KDE Control Centre

yep I have tried, but it also does not recognize them

the output from xev at the terminal is:

for the mute button:

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1107840, (-224,307), root454,333),
state 0x0, keycode 160 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes

for the volume up:

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1150993, (51,68), root729,94),
state 0x0, keycode 176 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

YOu might have to do some reading up on xmodmap and xev together to reprogram keys - be warned its not trivial - not impossible, but definitely a little work

k i will try to read the man for xmodmap, i hope i will be able to do it.

can you tell me where to put the command modprobe omnibook, so the module will be loaded at startup?

/etc/boot.local or
/etc/module.conf
...

in 2.6 kernel the file is /etc/modprobe.conf - but you could slap in at the end of boot.local - thats probably the best place...

I did (the xmodmap thing) with an MS Multimedia Keyboard. It only takes a little patience. Get the xev keycodes and then use xmodmap to reprogram them as needed....

A quick google on "xev xmodmap" may help, particularly if you add in the name of the laptop/keyboard concerned - hopefully someone's already done it and been nice enough to tell people how ;-)

ok, up to now I have some progress

the volume up, volume down, and mute keys are working

when i press them a nice windows pops up and increase (decrease) the volume percentage.

the problem that i have is the following

I am using a script in .kde/Autostart to set the keys:

for example:

xmodmap -e "keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume"

the problem is that if i launch a terminal for example, xmodmap is reset

and when I invoke xmodmap -pke, this key codes are not assigned.

any ideas?

check the bash startup files (.bashrc, .bash_profile) for anything that could be resetting the keys

nothing wrong in the files that you have mensioned.

but there is no progress

the keys are working for a given time and then do not know, after opening a application ot whatever, the mapping is just removed ....

Is khotkeys kicking in perhaps?