[NTLUG:Discuss] Instant access keys.

[Jerry Decker N5RV]

If you can program combined keys to the buttons, then
GNOME/Enlightenment allows you to bind key combinations to different
funtions. Works real good.

de Jerry N5RV

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> 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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