[Gllug] Browsers which support fancy keys

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Sat Jan 4 21:55:14 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 15:25, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:06:03, rich at annexia.org said:
>    > So I bought a Logitech keyboard which has lots of fancy keys marked
>    > "Finance", "My Home", "Search" and so on. I can get the keycodes of
>    > some (not all?) of these keys using xev. Question: are there any
>    > browsers which actually support binding these keys to events or
>    > bookmarks? I'm using galeon 1.2.6 at the moment.
> 
> No, it's not a browser-level problem.  I'd use xmodmap to map the codes
> to keysyms, and use your window manager to bind the keysyms to `galeon
> -w url`, where -w will reuse an existing Galeon process and create a new
> window with it.  You can also use -x, which would reuse a window.

And if your Window Manager doesn't support this, you can always use
xbindkeys.

Pete
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