I’ve been using Gentoo on my notebook for the past year or so which is why my HOWTO wiki on Thinkwiki has started to fall into disrepair. Anyway, i got something working (which was really not a problem, but just something i hadn’t gotten around to.) The special keys are now (almost) fully functional.
I created the file ~/.Xmodmap
with the contents:
keycode 115 = F13 keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext keycode 117 = XF86Calculator keycode 234 = F20 keycode 233 = F19
and then ran:
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
for now i’m just concerned about keycodes 234 and 233 which are the forward page and backward page keys, just above their respective arrow key. Keycode 115 is the right-click properties menu, but it seems to be tripping something in KDE that is making it difficult for me to get the key to do anything. I used F13 and F14 because there’s no chance of a collision, and i know that they don’t already have a function assigned to them.
I then installed the extension Firefox extension Keyconfig and additional buttons for keyconfig extension.
After restarting, by setting the F19 and F20 to be the keys mapped to the function f4kc_PrevTab and f4kc_NextTab respectively i can now flip through all my open tabs in Firefox with these previously inert keys.
Success!!!






