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TPB is a little program that enables you to use the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys. | TPB is a little program that enables you to use the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys. | ||
| − | With TPB it is possible to bind a program to the ThinkPad, Mail, Home and Search button. TPB can also run a callback program on each state change with the changed state and the new state as options. So it is possible to trigger several actions on different events. TPB has a on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, brightness and some other informations. Furthermore TPB supports a software mixer, as the R series ThinkPads have no hardware mixer to change the volume | + | With TPB it is possible to bind a program to the ThinkPad, Mail, Home and Search button. TPB can also run a callback program on each state change with the changed state and the new state as options. So it is possible to trigger several actions on different events. TPB has a on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, brightness and some other informations. Furthermore TPB supports a software mixer, as the R series ThinkPads have no hardware mixer to change the volume. |
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=== Sample configuration === | === Sample configuration === | ||
* [http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/doc/tpbrc.html /etc/tpbrc] | * [http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/doc/tpbrc.html /etc/tpbrc] | ||
| + | * Note that on some systems the "nvram" module will need to be loaded before tpb will work. | ||
=== Contact === | === Contact === | ||
Revision as of 16:06, 30 December 2005
Contentstpb - Thinkpad ButtonsTPB is a little program that enables you to use the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys. With TPB it is possible to bind a program to the ThinkPad, Mail, Home and Search button. TPB can also run a callback program on each state change with the changed state and the new state as options. So it is possible to trigger several actions on different events. TPB has a on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, brightness and some other informations. Furthermore TPB supports a software mixer, as the R series ThinkPads have no hardware mixer to change the volume. |
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Project Homepage / Availability
Status
Version 0.6.4
Packages
- Debian packages are available: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/tpb.html
- Red Hat packages: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/tpb/
CVS
The sources can be checked out through anonymous CVS with the following instruction set:
export CVS_RSH="ssh" cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/tpb co tpb
Documentation
Sample configuration
- /etc/tpbrc
- Note that on some systems the "nvram" module will need to be loaded before tpb will work.
Contact
Contact the author at markus.braun@krawel.de.
