[ILUG] running commands with shortcut keys in kde

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:46:30PM +0100, Stephen Reilly mentioned:
> On 27/07/05, John P. Looney <valen at tuatha.org> wrote:
> They made you a manager didn't they, those b4stards? ;) In KDE try
> going to the control centre/regional & accessibility/keyboard layout.
> Then select your keyboard. 

 Already done, and X has everything prepared for me.

Then use KHotKeys to map the multimedia
> keys to xmms. See here for further information:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys

 Not much info there, I'm afraid.

> You can use xev to find out the keycodes if you have to do it by hand,
> then xmodmap to map the results. Also rather than mapping directly to
> xmms functions you could write a couple of shell script wrappers (ask
> Karl for help with this ;) and sanitise or expand the functionality.
> You can call these through the KHotKeys daemon.

 OK....so...how is KHotKeys run ? I don't see such a binary on my box. I
can see the binary 'khotkeys' running - surely there is a GUI that'll
collect them for me ? Or even a config file I can edit somewhere ?

 Aha. strace says it loads a /home/looney/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc
file. Hmm. Good thing KDE is so easy to configure!

John

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