[svlug] Office keyboards and X

[Gianni Mariani]

Mario de Sousa wrote:

>Hey, guys.
>
>Has anyone ever managed to map the special keys found on office keyboards
>to do something useful in Linux?
>
>I have the scancodes eg. Scroll wheel up is 0xe0 0x0b, but how would I use
>this to get a response out of X?
>  
>

You would start by looking at xkb.

See:
http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/xkb.html

As for doing somthing *useful*, that's up for interpretation ... :-)