On Saturday, 17 February 2018 00.30.34 WET Stephen Morris wrote:

> I'm using a desktop with a microsoft

> keyboard, which has separate keys for volume, mute and play/pause

> controls and even a key for a calculator, but by default none of them

> work under linux and I've never investigated what needs to be done to

> get them to work, even if it is possible.

I have also a keyboard like that and the only key that does not work by default is the "calculator" key that is over the numerical section.

FWIW I am using plasma (kde) on X11. I am not sure if this is different on wayland based desktops.

Each key as an associated code (that I can see with xev), e.g. the key to play/pause media is associated with XF86AudioPlay. Actually most of the time the names are self-evident.

This is similar to what happens when you press the Fn key together with the associated orange key the code is the same XF86AudioPlay.

Actually I have these two options at the same time, if possible I always like to work with an external keyboard on my laptop.

So I would expect that those keys should work by default without any configuration.

Regards,

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José Matos