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Thinkpad Buttons KMilo Plugin
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Jonathan Riddell jr@jriddell.org, January 2004
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A port of tpb ( http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/ ) to KMilo.
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KMilo is a service for kded, the KDE daemon. KMilo is new to KDE 3.2.
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It allows plugins which interact with the special buttons found on
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some keyboards and laptops.
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This KMilo plugin reads the nvram used in IBM Thinkpads. You need the
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Linux nvram module ('insmod nvram') and to create a device node
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('mknod /dev/nvram c 10 144').
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Thinkpad R30/R31 models do not have a hardware volume control and so
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require software volume control. Other models need software volume
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control only if you want a volume change step different from the
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builtin value (14). This required write access to nvram ('chmod 666
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/dev/nvram') and could potentially damage the machine.
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A KControl Centre module is included to configure the values including
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whether this service is run or not (by default it is not).
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INSTALL:
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Download tdeutils source for kde 3.2 or newer. Then compile as
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usual starting from the tdeutils directory:
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make -f Makefile.cvs
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./configure
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cd kmilo
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make
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sudo make install
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Restarting kded is probably needed:
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tdekillall kded
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kded
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HISTORY:
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05 January 2004, Initial release, most things working
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21 January 2004, Bug fix, stop it crashing if starting without kmix
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runningdisplay rounded min and max volume levels, pda icon for
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KControl module
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24 January 2004, Stopped it start kmix on kded startup even when set not to run
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28 January 2004, Added to KDE CVS
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TODO:
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- Need a better icon for the KControl module
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- Test on machines other than my R31, which only has volume,
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brightness buttons, light and 'Thinkpad' buttons
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- Add options for the 'Thinkpad' and other action buttons to do something (e.g. bring up Konqueror)
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For this sort of thing we really want integration with KHotKeys but I'm not sure how
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