Battery info button on HP elitebook 6930p
Keymap for laptop keyboard is fun especially there are lots of default actions attached to it. One particular key, FnF8, which has tiny battery icon is not mapped to any action. It has a keycode of 137 on HP elitebook 6930p. I decided to bind the keycode to call up kpowersave information dialog since I am using KDE4 as desktop manager. But how to call up only kpowersave information dialog? Running command “kpowersave” will only trigger another instance of kpowersave.
I tried to use qdbus but could not find suitable dbus object to display kpowersave information dialog. Nevertheless qdbus is quit handy when come to change power profile of kpowersave.
qdbus is a no go for this purpose. I had to look for something else. Luckily, it did not take much of my time searching. “dcop” is it! dcop kpowersave KPowersaveIface showDetailedDialog will display kpowersave information dialog. Awesome!
I edited keytouch keyboard with these lines.
<key>
<name>battery</name>
<scancode>137</scancode>
<keycode>PROG2</keycode>
<default-action>dcop kpowersave KPowersaveIface showDetailedDialog</default-action>
</key>
Reactivated keytouch, the nifty application to map your multimedia keyboard. This is the result of pressing FnF8.
Nice eh?
