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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks

by Eric Faulkner, Tony Northrup
December 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9, Create Time-Shifted FM Radio
"frank play-live 104.1 1h&"
F10
"frank play-live 94.5 1h&"
F11
If you’re using the function keys, you can specify them as I did in my file:
F1, F2, F3, etc. If you’re using another special key that you don’t know how
to specify, you can use XEV to determine the ASCII code associated with
that key. Within an X terminal, issue the command
xev to bring up an X
window. XEV outputs a great deal of information to the terminal as you
move the mouse or press keys. Simply press the key you’re remapping, and
XEV will reward you with the associated ASCII code.
Reading the comments within the default
.xbindkeysrc file is the best way to
understand how it should be formatted. After you edit the file and save it,
execute
xbindkeys as your user account to cause the changes to take effect
immediately.
Test this out by pressing the button you mapped to the start-playback script.
You should see XMMS launch and begin playing the most recently recorded
file. Play with the other buttons you programmed to ensure that they’re all
working correctly.
Once you’ve verified that
xbindkeys is working properly, copy the .xbind-
keysrc file to the home directory of every user that will be logging into your
computer’s desktop environment. If a user logs in and doesn’t have the
script mappings, your remote control won’t work.
Wrapping Up
Your system sho ...
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