I have noticed that this shell knocks out my ability to use my function key on my laptop, disallowing me from being able to change the system volume, contrast, and brightness, from the key board along with using my built in numkey pad.

I was wondering if anyone would know how I would go about including these commands... I don't care about contrast, brightness, and the numkey pad. However, I do wish to be able to stop the sound with a key press instead of using the mouse. As most of my work revolves around text entry...

Would it require a module or is there a specific mapping that I can use to define that key? I haven't been able to find a defined reference to that key within the LiteStep Documentation...

I have looked at the following forum replies, however they didn't seem to add anything to actually being able to use the function keys...
http://www.litestep.net/index.php?section=4&action=view&catId=3&id=769

Regards and TIA,

1BEB
Bertelsen.ca

get jkey and the scan key utility from http://jugg.logicpd.com/

"Scan Key" doesn't recognize my laptop's "Fn" ( function key )
My system specs are...

Dell Inspiron 4150
P4-m 1.7
256 MB Ram
Win XP Home

Anyone have any other suggestions?...

Actually... it works when I push Fn + Page Up/Down... the scan codes respectively are.

000000AF = Fn + Page Up ( Volume UP )
000000AE = Fn + Page Down ( Volume Down )
000000AD = Fn + End ( Toggle Mute )

However, these combinations do not show up under the scan...

Fn + Left Arrow/Right Arrow ( Up/Down Brightness )
Fn + Up Arrow/Down Arrow ( Up/Down Contrast )

Ok so now as I understand it, from the 'jkey.dll' readme which is included all I have to do is comment out the

;LoadModule "$LitestepDir$hotkey.dll"

in my step.rc config file and add

LoadModule "$LitestepDir$jaykey.dll"

FROM THE jkey README...

-NOTE: If you are migrating from LiteSteps hotkey
-module, and do not want to have to update all of
-your "*Hotkey" lines, make sure to set the command
-"jKeyUseHotkeyDef" in your configuration file. If
-you don't, you have to change all instances of
-"*Hotkey" to "*jKey" in your configuration file.

Which configuration file is it reffering to?

LoadModule "$LitestepDir$jaykey.dll" should be LoadModule "$LitestepDir$jkey.dll"
and its talking about step.rc

sweet thanks...