{"id":111,"date":"2006-07-27T00:45:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/27\/i-love-open-source-software\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T00:47:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T08:47:23","slug":"i-love-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/27\/i-love-open-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"I love Open Source Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Randy<\/a> let me borrow his awsome presentation remote<\/a>. It’s basically an RF remote, whose other end is a USB fob, that acts as a keyboard. The two “next” and “previous” buttons on the remote map to “PageUp” and “PageDown” keys, which worked great for the Crucible and Xen presentation<\/a> Bryce and I gave this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, for my MythTV presenation<\/a>, I’m using OpenOffice.org<\/a>, which makes a distinction between “Space” and “PageDown”. “PageDown” goes literally to the next slide, where as “Space” triggers the next animation within a slide. Since my presentation slides<\/a> have a ton of “reveals”, I need to be pressing “Space”, not “PageDown”. A search of the Logitech page yielded no info on changing the remote’s config, so I opted to using “xmodmap” to get the job done for me.<\/p>\n

Using “xev”, I found that the keysym for “PageDown” on my keyboard is 0xff56, and the keysym for “Space” is 0x20. So, I blew away my PageDown key, and replaced it with Space:<\/p>\n

echo keysym 0xff56 = 0x20 | xmodmap –<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now the remote works just how I need it. :)<\/p>\n

© 2006, Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.
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