TypeMatrix Special Keys In XMonad
Posted on May 7, 2012
I got a http://www.typematrix.com|TypeMatrix Keyboard recently. It has a few buttons for starting up some applications directly, which did not work out of the box in my http://xmonad.org|xmonad setting.
A little playing with xev lets us add a few keys to ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs:
import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Xfce
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig (additionalKeys)
= xmonad $ xfceConfig
main = mod4Mask,
{ modMask = "xfce4-terminal"}
terminal `additionalKeys` [ ((mod4Mask, xK_F5), spawn "virtualbox --startvm Vista"),
"emacs"),
((mod4Mask, xK_F2), spawn "firefox"),
((mod4Mask, xK_F3), spawn "thunar"),
((mod4Mask, xK_F4), spawn -- Typematrix special keys
-- fn-sleep:
0, 0x1008ff2f), spawn "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesk\
((top.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend"),
-- Web browser
0, 0x1008ff18), spawn "firefox"),
((-- EMail
0, 0x1008ff19), spawn "evolution"),
((-- Calculator
0, 0x1008ff1d), spawn "xfce4-terminal -e \"ghci\"")
(( ]
This works very well for me, let me know if you make use of this and whether you needed to change anything!