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blackdeagle

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Registered: 2010-11-10

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shortcut to increase volume

Hi guys,

I used gnome on my netbook for a long time until I found xfce. It's perfect and lightweight! There were some issues at the beginning but I solved most of them by myself.
There is one thing I don't know how to solve: It's the shortcut to increase or decrease the master-volume of my netbook. In gnome, I could use the shortcut Fn+RightArrowKey but in XFCE it doesn't work.
How can I change the shortcut for this?

Greetings,
blackdeagle

jeromeg

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From: France

Registered: 2010-11-11

Posts: 131

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Re: shortcut to increase volume

Hello,

I advise you to install xfce4-volumed and to launch it at startup. It will automatically detect volume keys and bind them to increase/decrease the volume. It also handles mute keys.

Cheers,

Jérôme

blackdeagle

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Registered: 2010-11-10

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Re: shortcut to increase volume

Thanks for your posting and sorry for my late response, for some reasons I could not log into my account on xfce.org
However, xfce4-volumed works but what do I do if I don't have an "mute/unmute" key on my keyboard?

jeromeg

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Re: shortcut to increase volume

You should have a look at xmodmap or xkb to map another key to mute/unmute.

the_candyman

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Registered: 2010-11-17

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Re: shortcut to increase volume

In your Settings->Keyboard you can set some application short cut...

Command to lower volume:
amixer set Master 5dB-

Command to raise volume
amixer set Master 5dB+ unmute
(Note that I used "unmute",because, if volume is muted and I press the key to raise volume,then I want that it is  automatically switched to unmuted )

Command to switch from mute/unmute
amixer set Master toggle

Last edited by the_candyman (2010-12-10 21:08:11)

Fabioamd87

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Registered: 2015-02-07

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Re: shortcut to increase volume

HI, i've installed the app from AUR and started it. mute keyboard key works correctly but when I try to unmute the audio remain mute, why?

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: shortcut to increase volume

HI, i've installed the app from AUR and started it. mute keyboard key works correctly but when I try to unmute the audio remain mute, why?

Are you using pulseaudio? If so, this configuration change fixed it for me.

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Fabioamd87

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Registered: 2015-02-07

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Re: shortcut to increase volume

ok solved by using this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xf … fce4-mixer

or comment #3 here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed/+bug/883485