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methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

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[SOLVED] Mulitmedia keys on xfce4?????

I have tried Lineakd with no luck from this wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext … ak_Program ..... I built all of the packages, followed all of the instructions, and it still didn't work for my mulitmedia keys.

I have also attempted to try acpi_listen from this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpi_hotkeys but I got an error saying I had no "sockets?" file in /var something (I foget the exact error message), so I moved on to the lineakd way.

From this wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys ..... when I tried to setkeycodes to the same ones that work in Gnome, I got this error message: "Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console"

My multimedia keys are detected in Gnome with no troubles, but I want to go back to using xfce4 because I like it better. I hope there is a way to get these mulitmedia volume/mute/stop/play/next/previous buttons working on xfce4.

**********EDIT after SOLVED*******************

keytouch is the way to go: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext … ch_Program

It was the last way I tried and it worked perfectly on xfce4. Very simple to figure out and configure.

Last edited by methuselah (2008-09-22 13:57:22)