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kde3.2 seem to lack a lot. kde3.2 has many problems browser crashing, freezing, multimedia & more, so I got ride of it & went back to 3.1, If I where I would do the same.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 with multimedia keys running a Debian testing/unstable. I managed to set the volume control by using KHotKeys (under Regional & Accessibility).

If your X keyboard configuration does recognize your keys, you can create a new Action with type Keyboard Shortcut -> DCOP call; the DCOP settings are

Remote app: kmix
Remote obj: Mixer0
Called func: decreaseVolume / increaseVolume
Arguments: 0

What really drives me mad is that kmix does not have a function to toggle the mute state. I can set or reset it, and even get it, but I cannot use the return value from the " get" function to negate it and pass it to the setMute function

Where can we file an enhancement request?

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Original von Giuseppe Bilotta

What really drives me mad is that kmix does not have a function to toggle the mute state. I can set or reset it, and even get it, but I cannot use the return value from the " get" function to negate it and pass it to the setMute function

What about this:
[code:1]
#!/bin/bash

oldSetting=`dcop kmix Mixer0 mute 0`
if $oldSetting eq true; then newSetting=false; else newSetting=true; fi

dcop kmix Mixer0 setMute 0 $newSetting
[/code:1]

That's of course nice but I still think kmix has a deficiency by lacking the function. Your idea is a nice workaround for the time being, though

(Now if I only could get X to recognize the other 4 multimedia keys ...)

Regarding the issue of KDE being able to recognize any multimedia key, I found this article very helpful:

http://www.brunolinux.com/06-Fine_Tuning…s_in_Linux.html

Though (as the autor declares) it was performed for kde in a mandrake distro, It worked for me too. I'm running SUSE 9.3 with KDE 3.4, and I had to replace the advises given in the menudrake and kmenuedit sections of the article with the Control Center-> Regional & Accessibility -> KHotKeys sequence to associate the keys with the desired actions. Hope it helps, Giuseppe.

I must rectify what I said, in the sense that it applyes to X (and KDE, GNOME,... ) being able to recognize the multimedia keys. I admit it was not just a typo