Using Targus Wireless Multimedia Presenter with Linux
Jimmy and me bought a “Targus Wireless Multimedia Presenter” and tried to use it with Linux. It works absolutely perfect – at least using grml. :-) As we couldn’t find any docs how to set it up we decided to document what you should know about it – regardless which distribution you use. Basically there are three modes available:
Mode 1 (green light):
- left mousekey
- scrollkey
- right mousekey
Mode 2 (red light):
- keycode 99 (Prior)
- keycode 9 (Escape)
- keycode 105 (Next)
Mode 3 (yellow light):
- keycode 176
- keycode 162
- keycode 174
And finally some special keys:
- alt-tab-key: keycode 50 + keycode 64
- e-key: keycode 130
- mail-key: keycode 236
To bind a keycode to an action either run something like:
xmodmap -e ‘keycode 130 = XF86AudioMute’
or configure it in your ~/.Xmodmap for alle the keybindings, some of them might be pre-configured already. Afterwards bind the specified action (like XF86AudioMute) to a command in your window manager. That’s it.
BTW: The device will work out-of-the-box with all the keybindings starting with the grml GLT06 edition, available at the Grazer linuxdays. Hope to see you there! :-)