[LinEAK-devel] Please include A4Tech KBS-26 keyboard support to LinEAK

[Lex V. R. <lr...@ma...>]

Hi,

I found LinEAK the most useful utility to support multimedia keyboards.
Mine is A4Tech KB(s)-26 AntiRSI Office keyboard. You can find a picture
of it at http://www.a4tech.info/products/keyboard/standart/9958/

Key codes follow.

1. Four buttons in the bottom left-hand corner under the scroll wheel
are:

Undo      207    
Copy      167
Paste     168
Cut       169

2. The scroll wheel is tricky. It sends KeyPress event when pushed up
(causing continuous scroll in my case), and sends KeyRelease event when
pushed down. The keycode is 171.

3. The six buttons on the left just above the scroll wheel, from top
down are (name, keycode, usage):

Power     222     shutdown
Sleep     223     suspend
Toggle    205     switch between applications
Close     249     close application or current tab
Back      234     back to previous page in Konqueror, previous document
in other apps
Forward   233     forward to next page in Konqueror, next document in
other apps

4. The five buttons in the top left-hand corner are:

New       219     creates new folder
Word      170     starts OpenOffice writer
Excel     132     starts OpenOffice calc
WWW       178     starts Konqueror
E-mail    236     starts Kmail

5. Buttons in the middle at the top are:

5.1 Large multimedia buttons:

Stop               164       Stops play if focused on player window,
otherwise starts Konsole
Play/Pause         162       starts application (e.g. GIMP) if not
focused on player window
Volume Down        174       in other apps, zoom out
Volume Up          176       in other apps, zoom in
Previous Track     144       in Writer, Calc and Konqueror decrease font
size
Next Track         153       increase font size in Office apps

5.2 Small buttons at the top, just below the multimedia buttons are:

My Com.            235       open ~/Documens folder
Calculator         161       starts Kcalc
Calendar           247       opens calendar
LogOff             131       if Power button starts LogOff dialogue, can
be used to launch Quanta
Search             229       web search
Mute               160       if not focused on player window, launch
Kget

6. Five buttons in the top right-hand corner are:

Back     234    back to previous page in Konqueror, previous document in
other apps
Forward  233    forward to next page in Konqueror, next document in
other apps
Stop     232    stop downloading page in Konqueror, if not focused on
Konqueror window, launch addressbook
Refresh  231    refresh the page; if not in Konqueror, perform user
defined action
Favorites  230  open bookmarks in Konqueror; if not in Konqueror, open
user defined folder

7. This keyboard has special "Office" key that changes key codes
generated by function keys, as well as key codes for some other standard
buttons as follows:

F1 = Help  172    context help
F2 = New 173    create new document in office application, open new tab
in Konsole and Konqueror
F3 = Open  165    open document (Ctrl+O)
F4 = Save  175    save current document (Ctrl+S)
F5 = Undo  179
F6 = Redo  180
F7 = Spell 186    spell check the document
F8 = Replace  185
F9 = Reply        187   reply an email
F10 = Reply All   118   reply to all in email
F11 = F'ward      119   forward an email
F12 = Send        120   send an email

The following keys have no special usage but change the key codes in
office mode for some reason:

Insert = Insert   157
Scroll Lock = Scroll Lock   121
Print Screen/Sys Rq = Print Screen/Sys Rq  239
Pause/Break = Back Space    22


I would like to see the suggested function to be coded in as defaults so
that the keyboard would be functional out of the box, in KDE at least,
with minimum or no customization required.

Shall you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Lex