Tim wrote: >> That appears to work. Though still doesn't help me with one or two >> useful buttons on this keyboard (e.g. un/mute the sound, volume >> up/down). Tony Nelson: > "Mute" isn't all it's cracked up to be. For me, it just sets the volume to > 0, and there is no "Unmute", only the volume up. (On my keyboard there are > no volume and mute buttons, so I use the otherwise useless Search, > Favorites, and Web/Home.) I could live with that. My main interest for mute is to quickly shut up the computer when I answer the phone. There are other buttons on the keyboard I thought I'd try out, though I've never used similar ones on a Windows box (ones to open the mail client, web browser, search, back and forth buttons, three confusing ones with a moon [sleep?], computer icon [wakeup?] and a calculator. None of which I could make do anything, not that I particularly cared. It was just that they were there... But there are a few more buttons which sounded a bit more useful (mute, volume up & down), and some more that I might use too (stop, play/pause, back track, forward track). I can get XMMS to notice the play/pause button with some xmms-acme RPM, which is useful (allows me to answer the phone without the computer making a racket), but it doesn't pay attention to any other key presses. Actually, I wouldn't mind if the global key shortcut preferences didn't do much, so long as any application I would like to control let me choose my shortcut keys. Too many applications seem to pick weird keys for common functions. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
