Re: How to get multimedia keys (volume up /down) working
Hello
Jaap Haitsma (<jaap@haitsma.org>) wrote:
> I'd like to to use the volume up and volume down keys of my dell
> laptop in Gnome. However if I go to Desktop Preferences / Multimedia
> Keys I cannot attach Fn-VolumeUp(PageUp) or Fn-VolumeDown(PageDown) to
> the appropriate events. It simply doesn't notice that I pushed those
> keys. With other normal keys it just works fine.
>
> It also doesn't recognize the other multimedia keys. Like changing the
> contrast. These keys do their job (i.e. change the contrast or what
> ever they should do), but it seems that they are directly tied to the
> hardware. GNOME never sees those keys.
>
> Does somebody know how to get the volume up and down keys working?
I made mine (Logitech itouch-like) work using the hotkeys package.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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