Managed to track down the hotkey issue. After some research about the
internal workings of pommed including the event handling of the function
keys, I managed to isolate the issue. A missing invocation of "mate-
settings-daemon" or ("gnome-settings-daemon" if you're using Gnome)
causes this behavio
Managed to isolate the source of the problem: without the environment
variable PULSE_AUDIO being set 0, pommed doesn't ingore PulseAdio and
fails to initialise audio. Here's the patch for audio.c:
162,164d161
< /* Exclude PulseAudio mixer */
< setenv("PULSE_INTERNAL", "0", 1);
<
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