On 4/24/07, Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If these were assigned to the standard X multimedia button names
(XF86AudioRaiseVolume etc) they work automatically. If not, you can
first try picking your keyboard layout in kcontrol -> regional &
accessibility -> keyboard layout, if your keyboard layout is there and
you pick it, it will probably work automatically again. If not then
you can assign actions manually in kcontrol -> regional &
accessibility -> input actions.

Thanks! Keyboard layouts were not enabled, so I enabled them and chose
my layout. It didn't change anything.

I'd already been looking at the "input actions", but I don't see how
to add commands for actions such as volume control or skip track. I
can create a new action and assign a button to it, but the actions I
create must be one of the following:

Command/URL
K-Menu entry
DCOP call
Keyboard input
Activate Window

A keyboard shortcut can be assigned to a "keyboard input" that can be
instructed to have effect on a particular program, supposing it's
running. So I could program volume control for each program that has
keyboard volume control already (this does not cover every case).

Much better would be to control a mixer, so that one setting affects
all output from the soundcard. But the mixers don't seem to be
controlled by particular keys (the up and down arrow keys work on
faders, but you have to place the focus on the right fader first, and
there are a lot of them). This would be clunky because I'd have to
have a mixer window always open, which is not how it works in Gnome,
but it might be a workaround--if it worked, and I don't see how it
can, unless someone can suggest a mixer where particular keystrokes
can control volume and mute.

g
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