Download keyTouch 2.3.0

The keyTouch program has been specially developed for Linux Kernel 2.6 in combination with keyboards with extra function keys. With this program you can define exactly what should happen when one of these extra function keys is pressed. So you can 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 2.3.0 with the following changes:

Version 2.3.0:

• The “BASSBOOST” (kernel) keycode cannot be used anymore in keyboard files because it does not work under X (means: no events are received from the X server when a key with keycode BASSBOOST is pressed).
• plugins:
  • New plugin: Music player (Feature request [ 1636298 ])
  • Amixer plugin: Muting is now also possible for channels without a playback switch.
  • Amixer plugin: The plugin now uses the ALSA library, instead of a pipe to the amixer program, to control the volume. The channel that is used for changing the volume, will be read from the “Mixer channel” preference.
• keytouch config:
  • When a plugin is removed all the keys that have that plugin as their action, will be set to their default action.
  • Updated HTML documentation (still need to update the screenshots).
  • Fixed: [ 1584787 ] Possible failure when running on 64 archs.
  • The “Documents directory” preference has been removed from the GUI.
  • The “Mixer channel” preference has been added to the GUI.
• keytouch acpid:
  • keytouch-acpid is not an X client anymore. Instead it writes events to the event device of a keyboard.
  • ‘make install’ will now install a bootscript that calls keytouch-acpid so that it will run at the background.
  • The Xsession script will not be installed anymore, because keytouch-acpid is not an X client anymore.