Why aren't the multimedia buttons working?
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at canonical.com
Mon Nov 29 21:11:48 CST 2004
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:34:24PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Matt Zimmerman">
>
> > > 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?
>
> Where X has special keyboard codes (XF86AudioPlay, for instance), we could,
> but there's no guarantee they'll work anywhere, or be entirely safe. Some
> special keys just don't have keyboard codes, either.
I don't see how it could do any harm to add default actions for multimedia
keys where they make sense.
XF86XK_WWW launch browser
XF86XK_Eject eject
XF86XK_PowerOff logout
XF86XK_AudioPause rhythmbox --play-pause
XF86XK_AudioMute rhythmbox --toggle-mute
XF86XK_AudioLowerVolume rhythmbox --volume-down
XF86XK_AudioRaiseVolume rhythmbox --volume-up
etc.
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- mdz
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