I have a ThinkPad W540. On its keyboard there are four multimedia keys above the numpad. Two of those keys generate keycodes (and, apparently, scancodes) that correspond to combination of keys, Win_L + L and Win_L + E. In other words, for the key that generates Win_L + L,
showkey --scancodes returns this:
0xe0 0x5b 0x26 0xa6 0xe0 0xdb
The setkeycodes command requires either single byte unescaped or escaped two-byte sequences to denote scan codes, and showkey gives me way more than that, so I can't quite re-map that key to one of the free keycodes in my system with a straightforward "setkeycodes ".
After few hours of googling I'm still at loss as to how I can remap that key to something else that doesn't simply duplicate one of the existing key combinations on my keyboard and I would really appreciate any hints on how I can achieve that.
/etc/acpi/eventswhich is in theacpidpackage and just defining an action when those function keys were pressed. – cesar Jan 15 at 20:29