[lug] Keyboard light applet

Ken Kinder kkinder at tridog.com
Mon Aug 27 11:30:06 MDT 2001


I think the reason they didn't put the LED's on the keyboard was battery
power, but I'm not sure.

Timothy Klein wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I have the exact same keyboard.  I have never used it in Windows --
> that is why it can justify not having LEDS, they are part of the Windows
> driver?  How silly.  I wish I would have noticed this before I bought my
> keyboard, but oh well.
> 
> I have not seen an applet that would do this.  But on the other hand, I
> don't imagine that it would be all that hard to write, either.  It
> sounds like a fun, short project actually.  I usually use, and write
> GUIs with, QT.  But I have experimented with GTK+.  If I come up with
> anything, I will let you know.
> 
> Tim
> 
> * Ken Kinder (kkinder at tridog.com) wrote:
> > I've been looking on fm but couldn't find anything. Does anyone know
> > like a gnome panel applet or something that shows me what keyboard
> > lights I have? I've got one of those urgonomic wireless keyboards that
> > doesn't have lights for numlock, etc. Under Winbloze it shows the
> > keyboard lights on the taskbar; I need something similar for
> > Linux/Ximain gnome 1.4...
> >
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