[PLUG] Slackware on X200 - buttons

[Ben Koenig]

KDE is very good about capturing button event and handling them. XFCE not
so much.

You can assign functions for those keys, typically you will want to
identify which keycode is being triggered, and then map them to various
functions.

There isn't a lot of standardization for laptops in this area, most of my
laptops have worked just fine, others partially, and some not at all.
First make absolutely sure that the buttons do work in KDE.

If you are confident that they do, then assigning functionality is not too
difficult. But you have to be sure that's what the problem is.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:29 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 12/18/18 3:07 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
> >
> >> Is there someplace to make the volume control buttons work in XFCE? I'm
> >> pretty sure they worked in KDE, but they don't work in XFCE. I know for
> >> sure that they worked with Ubuntu MATE.
> >
> > Dick,
> >
> >   Which volume control buttons? I use alsamixer (a CLI tool) which I
> > set to
> > maximum volume they adjust each video or music as required.
>
> On this laptop, on the left, just above the function keys, there are
> three sound related buttons. One is a speaker with a slash through it,
> which toggles mute. To its right is a speaker with a downward pointing
> triangle, indicating lower the volume, and to its right is a speaker
> with an upward pointing triangle, indicating raise the volume. None of
> these buttons currently function.
> >
> >   Looking at the Xfce menu -> Multimedia I see a pulse audio control
> > yet I'm
> > unsure for what it works.
>
> I've use it in conjunction with Audacity when doing recordings on other
> machines, but that's not what I'm looking for this time.
> These buttons are more general purpose in nature.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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