lists Guillot wrote:
> 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
Shooting in the dark here, I remember a trick of mapping the
"FlyingWindows" (or "OpenWindows" as I called it for years). Would you
be able to do the same with those multimedia keys?
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