On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:07 +0930, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > I've just tried to set up some keyboard shortcuts, using Gnome, and > found that some will not do anything, just like when I tried to do the > same back on FC4, and I'm darned if I can find anything helpful about > this. > > Some of the functions available in the editor do nothing, yet the keys > assigned do work, e.g. The lock screen function doesn't work, no matter > what keys I use as the shortcut. Yet other functions do work, e.g. the > "Run a terminal" will open a terminal, even if I assign it a key without > a proper name, e.g. 0x7a showing in the configuration window. > Mine is mostly working, presario v3320tu: > Desktop > Launch help browser - does nothing working, I think depends on preferred applications at system menu > Log out - haven't tested > Sleep - haven't tested > Lock screen - does nothing > Home folder - does nothing > Search - does nothing > Email - does nothing Working too, same as browser > Launch web browser - does nothing > Show the panel run application dialog - works > Show the panel menu - works, but not always > Take a screenshot - works > Take a screenshot of a window - works > Run a terminal - works > > Sound > Volume mute - does nothing > Volume down - does nothing > Volume up - does nothing > Play (or play/pause) does nothing > Pause - does nothing > Stop playback key - does nothing > Skip to previous track - does nothing > Skip to next track - does nothing All working and with special key from laptop. I set up it with looking /var/log/message what code is generated when special key pressed and assign it to launcher > Eject - does nothing > > I didn't bother going through all the rest. I'm mostly interested in > getting the volume, play, track skipping ones to work, and the screen > locking one would be handy. But how do you go about this? > > In the past I have got XMMS to work with the audio buttons on an FC4 > box, but I don't recall having to do anything more than see that keys > had certain X names applied (such as, out of the various play/pause > names that could be picked from, only specific ones worked). All multimedia shortcut working properly, but with application launcher I feel take a longer time to launch, more quick with click icon at panel ;-) -- Hansen http://hansen.alfansa.org http://teknologipraktis.org --
