Hi, my dad recently came across an old imac g3 (not keyboard or mouse included) and asked me to sort of rehabilitate it for him. I’ve always been into linux, so I thought the best way to make it useful again would be to install an xfce distro on it. Never used opensuse before, but I saw that it still supports ppc hardware.
My problem is that old imacs to my knowledge don’t have a physical eject button and I don’t have a mac keyboard. I need to assign a button combination to physically eject discs. I’m confused as to how I should do this. I found the shortcut menu but I don’t know how to assign a button to do what I need to do.
First, you started a project without knowing if it could work. You assumed it would, trusting on your linux experiences. That’s good. But you have to realize that not many of us have the opportunity to investigate your problem from their own situation.
Second, you’re trying to integrate hardware from a time Apple did not do anything to make that possible. So problems are likely.
Third: it can work. Pick an Apple keyboard from Marktplaats or spend around € 50 on one of these new beauties. They do work great on linux, the eject key normally works. Probleem opgelost !!!
Fourth: open a terminal and issue the command ‘eject’. This works on all linux systems i know. If it does, you can create a shortcut to the command on the desktop. Can be done like this:
Open editor of your choice, new file, and paste this in the new file:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[nl]=
Comment=
Exec=/usr/bin/eject
GenericName[nl]=Laatje open doen
GenericName=
Icon=/usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/media-eject.png
MimeType=
Name[nl]=CD of DVD Uitspugen
Name=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
X-SuSE-translate=true
The save the file as ~/Desktop/Laatje-open.desktop