[mythtv-users] Using extra keyboard keys: logitech diNovo-Mini

[Colin McGregor]

On 8/20/08, Kingsley Turner <krt at krt.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to map the extra buttons on my diNovo Mini keyboard.
>
> I setup ~/.Xmodmap:
>
> keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
> keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
> keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
> keycode 177 = XF86AudioRecord
> keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
> keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
> keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
> keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
> keycode 129 = XF86Music
> keycode 178 = XF86WWW
> keycode 223 = XF86Sleep
>
> And it's accepted fine.
> # xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
>
> However the mythfrontend Key Editor doesn't register anything when the
> key is pressed.
>
> Can mythfrontend handle keys like this, or does everyone just remap them
> to the default keys:
> Escape, 'p', '[', etc. ?   I had some success with this, but it didn't
> seem correct.

A little while ago I ran into this issue. making a multi-media
keyboard work with MythTV. Then once I had worked my way through one
keyboard I worked on three other multimedia keyboards I had kicking
around the house (all of them Microsoft keyboard). Once done I wrote
up what I had learned and put it here:

   http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Keyboards

Bottom line for me was to remap the extra function keys to the default
keys (it may be ugly, but it does work). Please do add what you learn
from your Logitech keyboard to the above so hopefully other MythTV
owners of your model keyboard will not need to re-invent the wheel...

In the mean time, I recently got a used IBM branded multimedia PS2
keyboard that I should get busy and map out for the above site :-) .

Colin McGregor

> thanks,
> -Kingsley