[clue-tech] The InstallFest was busy and I learned a lot

[Keith Hellman]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:14:12PM -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> I think the other laptop that needed to use an external monitor got  
> fixed but I didn't see what was done.  I didn't work on mine.  Turns out  
> that xrandr can turn it on and off (tried it today) but the Fn-F7  
> Thinkpad key doesn't do anything.  Hal seems to recognize that I have  
> extra thinkpad keys but I don't see an xorg driver for them.  
> hotkeys-setup seems to be the debian way to use them but I'm skeptical  
> that it's well integrated with apps so far.

For what it's worth, I use xbindkeys
  http://www.nongnu.org/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

It works well with (most) of my HP hot keys.  The ones it doesn't work
for don't generate key events in X, but are supported by hardware.

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> A: Because it destroys the flow of conversation.
> Q: Why is top-posting dumb?

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