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[Bug 30562] Re: Acer € and $ + special laptop keys: outside supported X keycode range

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From: EliotBlennerhassett <eliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 11:28:37 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 30562 <30562@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 313514 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313514

I have an Acer aspire 4315 running Ubuntu 10.04.
By default showkeys -s doesn't report anything when the euro or dollar keys are pressed.  As above, the default scancodes are >255.  Using "evtest", I find that the scancodes are "b3" and "b4"

I have made these usable by
1) Adding to  /etc/rc.local (and making sure it is excutable):
setkeycodes b3 183
setkeycodes b4 184

2) Creating ~/.Xmodmap with 
keycode 183 = XF86Launch2
keycode 184 = XF86Launch3

Reboot. (Or sudo /etc/rc.local; sudo xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap)

Probably could map them to other directly usable things like euro
symbol, home end etc as well

3) Myself, I now use these keys in System/Preferences/Keyboard
Shortcuts, mapped to certain special functions.

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Acer € and $ + special laptop keys: outside supported X keycode range
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/30562
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