Download Keytouch 2.4.1

The Keytouch program has been specially developed for Linux kernel 2.6 in combination with keyboards equipped with extra function keys. With this program you can define exactly what should happen when one of these extra function keys is pressed, so that you can, for example, start your favorite browser at the touch of a button or jump to the next song while playing music. For an overview of various screenshots, we refer you to this page. The developer has released version 2.4.1 with the following changes since the previous entry in the Meuktracker:

Version 2.4.1:

keytouchd now detects if KDE or GNOME is running. It does that by checking if there is a process ‘kdesktop’ or ‘gnome-session’. If there is such a process keytouchd will use the values ​​of all environment variables for its own environment variables. As a result the applications launched by keytouchd will appear on the XGL display if XGL is running and GTK applications will use the theme as set by KDE when running KDE.

Version 2.4.0:

• Updated kernel keycode to X keycode mapping.
• Updated translations.
• keytouchd: XCloseDisplay is not called anymore, because on some systems it may not return from this call.

Version 2.4.0 beta:

• Updated to syntax version 1.2 for keyboard files.
• keytouch-config: The program now checks if KDE is running, by checking if environment variable KDE_FULL_SESSION is set.
• keytouch-init: Added support for USB keyboards.
• keytouch-keyboard: The keyboard list is now presented as a treeview.
• keytouch-keyboard: When keytouch-keyboard is started, the current keyboard will be selected in the treeview.
• keytouch-keyboard: When a keyboard file was successfully imported, the corresponding keyboard will be selected.
• keytouch-keyboard: Updated syntax checker for syntax version 1.2

Version 2.3.2:

• keytouch-config: Added Italian translation
• keytouch keyboard: Added Italian translation
• keyboards: Added support for 32 new keyboards

Version 2.3.1:

• keytouch-config: Fixed compiler warnings
• keytouch-keyboard: Fixed compiler warnings
• keytouch-acpid: read_event() now only cuts off a line when the line starts with “hotkey” or “button”.