[openbox] mapping keys to other keys

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Tue May 24 14:17:58 EDT 2005


On Tue, 24 May 2005, John Russell wrote:

> I have these funny extra keys on my laptop keyboard.  I'd like to have
> them make my browser go forward and back, which is what it looks like
> they were meant to do, but there is no real command for this.
>
> Does anyone know a way to map these key codes, as determined by xev,
> to another key code or combination, such as alt-left/right to do what
> I described above?
>
> Thanks
>
> John

Either add some code to the browser in question, or write a program that 
grabs your keys and sends what you want with the XTest extension.

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Mikael Magnusson



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