Phil Meyer wrote:
Tim wrote:
Tim:
Sound
Volume mute - does nothing
Volume down - does nothing
Volume up - does nothing
and so on...
Rogue:
I have got the first three working on my D810 and all of them
working on
my mom's Inspiron.
I am not sure about the other keys, but I am guessing that they work
too.
What issues are you facing?
It doesn't work... ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist)
But being serious, I bought a new keyboard from the evil empire that has
a few multimedia buttons on it (Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000
v1.0, USB), so I thought I'd have a bash at making use of some of them.
Volume controls, at the least, would have been handy, as my speakers
have none.
If you (or anyone else) uses Gnome on FC7, and has these shortcut keys
working, can you have a look in the keyboard shortcuts preferences, and
tell me whether yours has different shortcut names for the keys
associated with the actions. I'll just list a few.
Action Shortcut
Volume mute XF86AudioMute
Volume down XF86AudioLowerVolume
Volume up XF86AudioLowerVolume
Play (or play/pause) XF86AudioPlay
Skip to previous track XF86Back
Skip to next track XF86Forward
In the past (FC 3 or 4) I had to play with some keyboard mapping files,
creating a custom map for my other keyboard, and set specific names for
some keys. There were a few similarly named keys, but applications only
paid attention to some of them.
Yes, I've logged in and out, rebooted a few times, swore at it, etc.
These keys are noticed being pressed by something, as I was able to
configure the shortcuts by pressing those keys, and those names appeared
in the configuration window.
Those are not close to what I have.
Did you use: System/Preferences/Personal/Keyboard Shortcuts?
If you do it that way, it will grab the actual scan code of the keyboard.
This procedure works for all buttons that produce a scan code.
On my Dell Laptop (work bought it for me!)
Volume Down = 0xae
Volume Up = 0xb0
...
etc
Good luck!
If you want to know the actual keycode and keyseym for any key press in
Xwindows, investigate the X utility calle "xev". It was available on my
F7 installation and I don't believe I installed anything more special
than some of the developers tools.
~~R
