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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #25002
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 25002

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote :

The problem is that not all keyboards generate the same keycodes for multimedia/internet keys. So it is not possible to map these keys out of the box with a name (called a keysym).

To get keysyms for your keys instead of hex codes there are 2 possibilities:
1) Find out the keycodes with xev and map them to the right keysyms with xmodmap
2) Define a new keyboard model in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet which allows you to select the keyboard in the GNOME Keyboard Preferences.

A detailed description on how to do this can be found here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys

Perhaps somebody could set up some project and ask the community to provide their xmodmap files and create keyboard models from this that can be sent to xorg upstream. This would be a good and relatively easy contribution to Ubuntu and GNU/Linux in general.