Fwd: Customize AUX button? Needed for scummvm

Jan Keymeulen spam at keymeulen.com
Mon Aug 18 08:54:28 CEST 2008


On Mon 18 August 2008 om 08:28:06 GMT Thorben Krueger told us:
> sorry, brainfart on my part. I thought you were referring to the AUX
> button moddable by xmodmap. This is no longer possible for some
> reason.
>

Strange that AUX doesn't send keyevents anymore. Anyone care to explain why?

Anyways, using some very simple perl and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/x11guitest you can send almost any event
you would ever want to a X11 application. So that might work.
 
> 2008/8/18 Thorben Krueger <thkruege at googlemail.com>:
> > Xmodmap USED to do the trick but this has changed since. I don't know
> > why this functionality was removed...
> >
> > 2008/8/17 Jan Keymeulen <spam at keymeulen.com>:
> >> On Sun 17 August 2008 om 17:18:16 GMT Thorben Krueger told us:
> >>> Maybe one of you knows a solution? Any terminal app that can send
> >>> keycodes to a running application?
> >>>
> >>
> >> xmodmap might do the trick
> >>
> >>>
> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>> From: Thorben Krueger <thkruege at googlemail.com>
> >>> Date: 2008/8/17
> >>> Subject: Re: Customize AUX button? Needed for scummvm
> >>> To: Support for Openmoko Device Owners <support at lists.openmoko.org>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Alternatively, putting a custom key into the aux menu could do the
> >>> trick, too. How do I send a keycode to a running program? would be
> >>> pretty neat to have that feature.
> >>>
> >>> 2008/8/17 Thorben Krueger <thkruege at googlemail.com>:
> >>> > I need an application (scummvm) to rebind aux button to F5. AUX used
> >>> > to send a keyboard event, but this was removed. Would be glad for
> >>> > help.
> >>> >
> >>>
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