[NTLUG:Discuss] Instant access keys.

[Steve Baker]

A lot of keyboards are coming with some *really* dedicated
keys that presumably bind to special software in Windoze.  I'm
talking about fluff like 'Instant Internet' buttons and things
that turn the sound volume up and down.

I'm not impressed with these things - but my wife *is*. She's
been known to hound me about getting Windoze on our PC at home
(presently a Linux box) because: "you can get on the Internet
with just one button - without all the messing around with
pppup and netscape".

So, is there an easy way to tie either standard function keys
to desktop functions - or especially - those funky extra keys?
Bearing in mind that it has to work no matter which window
the mouse might happen to be pointing at.

Let's assume that X is already running - so it doesn't have
to work from the Linux console.

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