Personally I mainly use Amarok (from KDE) as a music player and allow it to create some 'global short cuts' which then also work enabling Start/Stop, Pause, Forward, Backward, Volume Up/Down, Trackrating etc.
On 7/14/07, Dominique Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:52:37 +0100, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On 2007-07-11 22:58 +0100, Gautam Iyer wrote: > > I had the same problem a few days ago. You can use xmodmap to remap as > > follows. First find a keysym name to assign to these keys. Try doing > > > > grep -i audio /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB > > > [...] > > on fvwm startup. Finally, I have in my fvwm bindings > > > > key XF86AudioMute A N Exec exec amixer -q set > > Master toggle key XF86AudioRaiseVolume A N Exec exec amixer -q > > set Master 2+ key XF86AudioLowerVolume A N Exec exec amixer -q > > set Master 2- > > Many thanks. This greatly improves productivity ;) > > > The only thing I am unhappy about is that the above just increases / > > decreases the volume, and gives you no confirmation or indication of > > what the volume is. I wouldn't mind a volume slider, like on my TV. Xosd > > has a nice volume slider, but that involves me writing a script that > > gets the current volume and feeds it to xosd. > > > > Should you, or anyone else on the list, know of a script / application > > that was designed for this purpose, let me know :) > > This will be nice but I don't know any program that does that. > You can combine a call to xmessage with amixer: amixer sget Master | xmessage -timeout 10 -file - but this will be very verbose. You have to sort it with grep in the middle. amixer sget Master | grep Capture | xmessage -timeout 3 -file - and add further filtering with sed if needed. Dominique > > GI > -- Dominique Michel -- N.B.: Tous les emails que je reçois sont filtrés par spamassassin avant de me parvenir.
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