Another linux question. So here's the deal. When I first got this laptop I wiped the windows 8 junk on it and threw lubuntu on it. My keybindings worked as expected which is to say volume up and down adjusted system volume and the windows meta-key would pop the system menu in the left hand corner.
There was a hardware failure a month or two ago with the wireless nic so I had to restore Windows 8 and send it back to HP for repairs. They fixed it or replaced the nic or something (same computer came back and now wireless works again so whatever). Anyways I really hate windows 8 and so I downloaded Linux Mint to give it a shot for no reason other than I like to explore distros from time to time. Cinnamon does not work with this computer, no matter what I try to do and to top it off I had one heck of a fight just getting linux re-installed. It seems HP updated the bios and put in trusted boot + UEFI or whatever. Long story short I got the latest version of linux mint installed after an 18+ hour struggle only to find out that whatever cinnamon is using to draw to the screen doesn't function well with this chipset (AMD + ATI, I tried the open source driver which sorta worked and the flgrx drivers which didn't work at all). The best I got was just alright but had artifacts all over the place. However I did verify that all of my keybindings were working correctly. Rather than keep fighting it I just did an apt-get install lubuntu-desktop. That worked the first time. Let me just say that I love LXDE it's light and it's fast and does it's job without getting in my way or deciding to present some random learning curve. However none of my keybindings work. The windows meta-key doesn't pop the system menu and the volume keys aren't working. I looked through this http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings but I'm still not sure what the magic incantion needs to look like to get it to pop the system menu. I did manage to verify that meta+d will show me the desktop, so the key is functioning at least. I've also been able to get the rest of the keybindings to work except the volume and windows meta key ones. Anyone have any ideas on what this needs to look like? Thanks! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
