A coding question

[Curt Tresenriter]

On 9/5/2011 5:11 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> I know you are (or are trying to :) ), but a lot of this discussion
> appears to be about the UIs of various video players for some reason.
>
> My first idea would be to go into the keyboard shortcuts bit of Gnome
> or KDE or whatever you're using, and try to configure those buttons as
> the media play, pause, stop etc. buttons as if they were any other
> keyboard shortcut. If they do present themselves as just keys (which
> would be nice) this should work; have you tried that?
As I said in the beginning I haven't got any experience with how all 
this works.
How the keyboard figures in, I also haven't a clue. I don't see how  
keyboard shortcuts relate to buttons on the speaker unit.
Using a remote with Mythbuntu, there was a file I could edit, as far as 
I understand there is no such file for this issue.
You'll have to forgive my ignorance. I'm not anything even remotely 
resembling a geek, let alone a developer. I manage to resolve most 
issues that come up thanks to google and occasional clues from one forum 
or list and a lot of reading, mostly reading.
I'm happy to study up on anything to get a clue but not knowing where to 
start
is a bit of a handicap. I wasn't even sure what questions to ask and it 
appears I haven't done all that good a job of that.
So maybe you can explain (in small words) how keyboard shortcuts relate 
- or where to go to read about it?