On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:43 -0700, kai wrote:
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:52 am, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Suse 10 on a Dell Latitude D600 with KDe 3.5.3.
I've installed the hotkeys package to enable the volume control keys.
This software works fine however I'm unsure as to the best location to call this program from to make it auto start on boot up.
Every place I've tried starts it OK with KDE but although it's running I can't use the controls from my desktop.
I appreciate this is probably a case of RTFM but I've followed the documentation and thus far not go it to work.
I don't really think there is much documentation on this, since us laptop owners are very much in the minority when it comes to *nix usage.
That said, it will work if you set it up.
http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/desktop+audio.jpg
That's a picture of my laptop playing Amarok with the on screen display being changed by my pressing the volume keys.
In my experience, it works most of the time. Firefox and some other less-than-friendly programs will override the volume controls for some reason. (Sound in Linux is still a very poor mixed-bag of different drivers and engines, not all of which play nicely with the others. Hopefully this will change in the future.)
Here's what you need. IIRC, you want to go into YaST > Software Management and install (if not already) OSD (xosd and lineak_xosdplugin) and lineak - the Linux Easy Access Keyboard, which comprises lineakconfig, lineakd, lineak_defaultplugin and lineak_kde.
Once done (and no- you don't have to reboot), you can run Geeko > Utilities > Desktop > KLineakConfig.
This is pretty self explanitory. If you need, you can map the keys to KMIXUP and KMIXDown for volume and KMute for mute. The D600 may or may not be listed. Just find one which matches the keys you have. I have an Inspiron 600m and use an Inspiron 8600 key mapping.
Just make sure you click Apply and NOT Close. If you click Close, nothing will work. Apply will minimize the lineak thingy into your systray and keep the service running.
If you have everything running correctly you'll see the green OSD and will be able to control your multimedia with the keys.
I wish you luck!
More information can be found at http://lineak.sourceforge.net/
One more thing about lineak. Look at /etc/lineakkb.def to see which keyboard you should using for your system. In the case of the above laptop this is the entry: [DELL-D600] brandname = "Dell" modelname = "D600" [KEYS] VolumeDown = 174 VolumeUp = 176 Mute = 160 [END KEYS] [END DELL-D600] So the required keyboard in lineak is DELL-D600.
To the list, I apologize for this totally On Topic post. I will return to posts highlighting the virtues of hampsters, beer and wet t-shirts momentarily.
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