[haiku] Re: keyboard extras

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:46:05 +0200

On 27/03/2012 08:26, Pete Goodeve wrote:
> This may be a bit OT, but I'll take the risk of asking my question...
> 
> I just acquired a USB keyboard.  [Dunno if it's just a Berkeley custom
> of leaving unwanted stuff on the kerb for anyone who wants to grab,
> but I just picked up that plus a working spare 14" flat-screen...]
> 
> Anyhow, the (Microsoft) K/B has a wide variety of buttons and keys
> that are not recognized by Haiku -- even the function keys need a
> "Function Lock".  Can anyone tell me what these keys send, and is 
> there any way to detect them from Haiku?  (It would be fun to have
> them actually do things.)

If they do send keystrokes correctly it should be easy.
SpicyKeys used to show them when pressed so one could add actions.
Not sure our shortcuts prefs does alike yet.
If not please send a patch :)

François.

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