[ltp] Mapping forward/back buttons to key combo

[Matt Graham]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 16:07, after a long battle with technology, Steve 
Krulewitz wrote:
> I would like to map the forward and back keys near the cursor keys to
> ctrl+pageup and ctrl+pagedown to let me do tab switching in several
> applications.  I've realized I can't do this with xmodmap -- what
> else can I use?

Which model# of Thinkpad is this?  That info may not be particularly 
relevant to this question, but it's always a good idea to provide that 
info just in case.

If the keys generate X events (use xev to check whether they generate 
keycodes or not), use xbindkeys combined with xmacroplay.  If the keys 
don't generate X events but are recognized with tpb, use tpb combined 
with xmacroplay.  http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search , 
comp.os.linux.x , keywords "xbindkeys xmacroplay" for using those 2 
utilities.  If they don't generate X events or tpb events, it gets 
complicated.  HTH,

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