Linux Desktop Hacks

Energize Your Console with Macro Music Magic #11

Chapter 2, Console

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HACK

Because you want Ctrl-Alt-Insert to begin playing an audio CD in your CD

drive, look for the definition for the Insert key in /etc/mykeys. That keycode

is 110. Add a line below the keycode definition that makes the combination

control+alt+keycode 110 execute the string represented by F100, which is

cdplay\n.

Assume you want Ctrl-Right Arrow to play the next track on a CD. Find the

definition in /etc/mykeys for the Right Arrow key, which is keycode 106. It

already has one definition (increase to the next console). Add another defini-

tion below that so that Ctrl-Alt-Right plays the next track on a CD (string

F102).

When you are finished assigning all the F100-F104 actions to the keys, the

relevant section of your /etc/mykeys file should look like this:

keycode 103 = Up

alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal

control alt keycode 103 = F104

keycode 104 = Prior

shift keycode 104 = Scroll_Backward

keycode 105 = Left

alt keycode 105 = Decr_Console

control alt keycode 105 = F103

keycode 106 = Right

alt keycode 106 = Incr_Console

control alt keycode 106 = F102

keycode 107 = Select

keycode 108 = Down

control alt keycode 108 = F101

keycode 109 = Next

shift keycode 109 = Scroll_Forward

keycode 110 = Insert

control alt keycode 110 = F100

Special Keyboards

I have a Logitech Elite keyboard. It has multimedia keys for starting and

stopping a CD player, ...