Why aren't the multimedia buttons working?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:46:08PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Kristof Vansant">
> 
> > On windows most of the multimedia keys just work without me configuring
> > anything. How can I make those buttons do there magic stuff on
> > ubuntu? :)
> 
> Computer > Desktop Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
> 
> This question would be more appropriate on ubuntu-users, btw.

Shouldn't we assign a sane set of defaults, corresponding to the standard
desktop application suite?

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 - mdz