Re: Gnome keyboard shortcuts in FC7

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!