![]() Select each key listed on the left side of the window and verify what action will take place. Now your keyboard is displayed click on the Key Settings tab. Your keyboard should be available in the list, select it and click the OK button. Click on the Import button and find your new keyboard file. A new window will open with a list of available keyboards to choose. The Key Setting tab should be blank (mine are populated due to my settings are already entered.) Select the Keyboard tab and click on the Change button. Now you can go back to Control Center or System > Preferences and run KeyTouch. I opened Gnome Terminal and entered sudo apt-get install keytouch. Exit KeyTouch Editor.īut that is only the first step you need to install KeyTouch to import your keyboard file into your system. Once your buttons are programmed, click on File and Save As and save the file anywhere you choose (mine is in the root of my profile.) You will be prompted to send your file to the developer if you wish. I’m think if I knew the line command to initate a sleep or hibernate power save, I can enter it on the program line. ![]() For some reason it does not like the Lock Command from the Special Action Plugin menu. I configured all four buttons and three of them work great. Click the New button in the bottom left, press an extra function key, and either give it a name or choose the name it KeyTouch displays. All you need to do is enter in the manufacture name and model number of the keyboard. I was prompted by KeyTouch Editor to press any of the “extra function keys” which will bring you to a blank interface. KeyTouch can be found in the Control Center or under System > Preferences menu. I selected KeyTouch Editor and installed it. ![]() I remember reading about that before, but never got around to trying it out. I was in Synaptic Package Manager and typed in keyboard into the Search field. I never could never get any of these keys to work in Linux… that is until today. I have an old Dell Dimension 8200 which has a Dell SK 8100 with extra function buttons: E-mail, Internet Home, Search, and Sleep.
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