[xmonad] how to map XF86* keys?

Chengqi Song songcq at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 08:43:37 EST 2010


it works!

thanks
lars
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Viktor Deryagin wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Chengqi Song <songcq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I want to map my vol up and vol down keys. I used xev to capture their info as follows:
> >
> > KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001,
> >    root 0x115, subw 0x0, time 1035672, (320,301), root:(321,319),
> >    state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
> >    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> >    XFilterEvent returns: False
> >
> > KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001,
> >    root 0x115, subw 0x0, time 1036158, (320,301), root:(321,319),
> >    state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
> >    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> >    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> >    XFilterEvent returns: False
> >
> > but I dont know how to use them in my xmonad.hs like other keys:
> >
> > myKeys = \c -> mkKeymap c $
> >    -- volume key binding
> >    [ ("M-=", spawn "aumix2pipe +10")
> >    , ("M--", spawn "aumix2pipe -10")
> >
> >
> > Could anyone provide a solution?
> 
> It's simple:
> 
>  myKeys = \c -> mkKeymap c $
>     -- volume key binding
>     [ ("<XF86AudioRaiseVolume>", spawn "aumix2pipe +10")
>     , ("<XF86AudioLowerVolume>", spawn "aumix2pipe -10")]


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