[haiku] Re: keyboard extras
- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:32:14 -0700
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:46:05AM +0200, Fran wrote:
> On 27/03/2012 08:26, Pete Goodeve wrote:
> >
> > 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 :)
Yes! They do, and it does... Well mostly anyway. There are five prominent
buttons on the USB K/B that don't seem to do anything at all, but all the
others show their keycodes in the shortcuts pref.
Annoyingly my usual (Compaq) K/B has extra buttons too [forgot about
them I've had it so long] but they also are not seen by shortcuts.
Wonder if they need to be primed by some signal from Windows or
something?
I gather that 'shortcuts' *is* essentially 'SpicyKeys'? I can't find any
documentation in the User Guide, but trying out some of the ideas from
the SpicyKeys doc, they seem to work.
Thanks.
-- Pete --
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