striker Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 First of all Mandriva 2008 Free (64bit) detected and set the keyboard layout as 104PC keyboard, which is wrong. The laptop uses a 88key-keyboard. I changed that after the install in KDE Control Center > Regional and Accessibility > Keyboard Layout, to (right pane) 'Enable Keyboard layout' > select Acer laptop > select 'intl' as layout variant. (That's the layout I need, yours of course may vary.)I used the KeyTouch program (not in Mandrivas repos) available from http://keytouch.sourceforge.net/index.phpto set the 4 special Acer buttons at the left side of the power on/off button. Here's a picture of those keys:You can use the configfile for an acer4100 supplied with the program. You need to fetch and install these two programs: keyTouch 2.2.4 - Mandriva 2007 RPM (64bit) and keyTouch editor 3.1.1 - Mandriva 2007 RPM (64bit).For the P-button I used the default to start up the KeyTouch program, the E-button starts up Ekiga, the envelope button starts up Sylpheed (my mail client), the planet-button starts up Firefox (my web browser).Refer to the programs documentation to read about the program, howto set it up and install and to configure it at the link above.All 4 buttons work to my likings now. There's one problem ... after a reboot the settings are gone and you have to start from scratch.Edit> see this : http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thr...forum_id=380916for a possible solution. Like I said the program (keytouch) works but it fails to initiate at boot. The above solution might work but I'm not in a position right now to test that. I solved my problem with the below solution, but maybe when 2008 Spring arrives I'll test it again. : So I uninstalled the thing and fiddled with lineak. For a complete howto with an Acer laptop see for example this (dutch): http://ohreally.web-log.nl/acer_vista_mandriva/keys.htmlor the english version:http://ohreally.web-log.nl/acer_vista_mandriva/index.en.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Nice bit of tweaking Striker !! . . . . . B) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 It was one of the nifty programs that led to immediate results, the other obvious ones took way to much to fiddle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 Edited the first post : made an add at the end of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted December 27, 2007 Author Share Posted December 27, 2007 Found a possible solution to the problem with keytouch not initiating at boot. Posted the solution in my initial post above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grogerf Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Found a possible solution to the problem with keytouch not initiating at boot. Posted the solution in my initial post above.Hallo striker ,Do you think the KeyTouch program could provide a solution to a problem I've had with the 'search' button on my keyboard ever since moving to mdv 2007 (wasn't a problem in mdv 2006). I first described the problem here :-http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...eyboard+buttonsIt's much the same in 2008, I can select (KDE) Control Centre>>Regional & Accesibility>>Input Actions>>Entrées de l'éditeur de menus (yes it's in French)>>K Menu - Firefox Search.desktop>>Keyboard Shortcut >>Command url>>apply and it works until I reboot After rebooting Alzheimer's disease takes hold of the machine and we're back to the Mandriva/KDE default of Konqueror browser and Google France It looks as if it should work, but I'm not sure I can safely follow the links to getting KeyTouch to start at boot .Grogerf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 It looks as if it should work, but I'm not sure I can safely follow the links to getting KeyTouch to start at boot . Just add the command to start KeyTouch at the bottom of the /etc/rc.local file Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 I still use lineak and got no complaints. But if I were you I would wait for the next version of MDV, otherwise you're possibly going through some headaches again and then there will be the new MDV and you're back at square one.Of course you can try the Keytouch program and as long as you make notes of what you're doing you should be able to reverse what you did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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