Activating extra keyboard keys

[Karl Klinger]

On 2015-05-06 09:55 PM, Phil wrote:
> I recently bought a new keyboard which has a row of extra keys 
> including a browser, e-mail and volume setting keys. I was wondering 
> if it might be possible to have these keys do their intended job? 
> These extra keys do wake a sleeping computer so they are active under 
> Kubuntu.
>
> Keyboard settings looked like the likely way to set up the keys but 
> that doesn’t appear to be the case.
>

A couple of years ago I successfully followed the instructions in this 
article:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_keyboard_keys

Karl