Re: How to get multimedia keys (volume up /down) working
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Jaap Haitsma wrote:
| Hi,
|
| 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?
Gnome 2.4 has detected these keypresses on my system when 1.4 didn't.
It uses acme. 2.6 will have it builtin, hence my anticipation of 2.6
being dpkg'd
Otherwise xev, xmodmap and Xsession are routes you could investigate.
HTH, Tim
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