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    extensions. It monitors function keys and Toshiba-specific buttons (including the CD player buttons and the state of the laptop lid) and responds appropriately.

  • tpctl IBM ThinkPad configuration tools for Linux by Thomas Hood.

  • ThinkPad Buttons enables the special keys that are found on the keyboard of an IBM ThinkPad. It is possible to bind a program to each of the buttons. It has an on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, LCD brightness, and some other things.

  • IBM ThinkPad Scroll Daemon

  • i8k utils for DELL laptops.

  • hotkey Linux driver for ACER laptops.

  • OSL is a simple pbbuttonsd (used on Apple laptops to access the 'special keys' like volume, eject, etc.) client. It uses the xosd-lib to display the current values which makes it look a lot more like OSX than other pbbuttonsd-clients.

  • PBButtons enables hotkeys on Apple iBook/PowerBook/TiBook. I have heard it works well on x86 architectures, too.

  • ikeyd is a simple daemon which sets the volume or ejects a CDROM when hotkeys are pressed on an iBook/TiBook.

  • jogdiald for the Jog-Dial on SONY laptops offers support for extra keys, too.

  • omke is a set of small programs and patches to configure some advanced features of your HP OmniBook (usually things that HP has not documented) such as enabling/disabling the extra onetouch/multimedia keys. This tool works also for some Toshiba notebooks.


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