Mapping keyboard brightness keys and others with microsoft bluetooth 5000 keyboard

Question

Is there a way to map fn key on microsoft bluetooth keyboard 5000. i want to basically have quick functions like keyboard/screen brightness control from bluetooth keyboard

Answer 1

Trilby wrote:And what have you done so far?  There are wiki pages, several threads, and many good pages that can be found via google that will tell you everything you need to know.
I changed my mind and i wanted to try it, I found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … troduction and I did everything it said so first I created .Xmodmap in ~ and in there I put:
keycode 172 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 122 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 123 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 121 = XF86AudioMute
(and i got that using xev | grep -A2 --line-buffered '^KeyRelease' | sed -n '/keycode /s/^.*keycode \([0-9]*\).* (.*, \(.*\)).*$/\1 \2/p' )
but when i was going to try it with
$ xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
nothing happens, nothing in the console and the volume stays the same, any idea, anyone?
WonderWoofy wrote:
Here.
You should really try and solve/research your problem before posting here.  You have access to the same wiki and same google as the rest of us, so I am not entirely sure why you think that we should be researching these thigns for you. 
Also I am really not sure how you consider the most imprtant keys on the keyboard to be the play/pause and volume keys.  Personally I think the letters and numbers hold some pretty significant value.
You do? what kind of wierdo are you?
Last edited by Icamaxi (2012-11-23 23:01:45)