I bought a cheapo keyboard the other day that has a few 'multimedia' keys such as volume up, volume down, mute and some other rubbish. In Windows, the media keys are actually pretty useful when in a game, or you're too lazy to play with the audio controls. Because of the speaker setup, I can't simply turn the knob on the speaker and make it quieter/louder. Now, in Linux, I'm wondering can you setup to something like that. I tried going to Kcontrol and setting up control to one of those special keys. He didn't register that anything was pressed. I started xev, and got the following: for volume up: KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 2819764, (665,948), root:(669,978), state 0x10, keycode 176 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 2819832, (665,948), root:(669,978), state 0x10, keycode 176 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: for volume down: KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 2846764, (434,700), root:(438,730), state 0x10, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 2846833, (434,700), root:(438,730), state 0x10, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: and for mute: KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 2867280, (568,721), root:(572,751), state 0x10, keycode 160 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 2867345, (568,721), root:(572,751), state 0x10, keycode 160 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: Is there anyway to setup so when I hit one of those keys, aumix triggers with a flag to raise/lower or mute sound? Kcontrol obviously isn't going to happen, so I'm wondering is there a way to set it up on the level of X windows.