[dwm] Multimedia, print screen keys

I've just switched from awesome to dwm, and in the process of migrating my config from lua to the c header file I've encountered some trouble. The first problem is I can't get my multimedia keys to function (volume up/down/mute). I've searched through the mail archives and haven't found a fix

Re: [dwm] Multimedia, print screen keys

Use xev to figure out what keycodes those buttons output. Use xmodmap to assign them keysyms. # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dwm] Multimedia, print screen keys

spawn/execvp() is supposed to get each argument as a pointer, not all-in-one. all the commands you are having trouble with also happen to have arguments. On top of that, I don't think you have the right arguments for amixer... Here's the relevent parts of my config for an example: - static

Re: [dwm] Multimedia, print screen keys

Thanks Jeremy, it's working now. spawn/execvp() is supposed to get each argument as a pointer, not all-in-one. all the commands you are having trouble with also happen to have arguments. On top of that, I don't think you have the right arguments for amixer... Here's the relevent parts of