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Carl Karl

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Registered: 2013-06-12

Posts: 231

[solved] XF86AudioRaiseVolume Key not working in XFCE with Toshiba Z30

Symptoms:

• It is possible to assign an action to XF86AudioRaiseVolume (or XF86AudioLowerVolume) in xfce4-keyboard-settings, but when XF86AudioRaiseVolume is pressed, nothing happens. (Not even failsafe test commands.)

• With xfce4-volumed, the mute-key works, but not XF86AudioRaiseVolume and XF86AudioLowerVolume.

• With volumeicon, the following terminal output is send:

  $ volumeicon
  
  ** (volumeicon:13084): WARNING **: Binding 'XF86AudioRaiseVolume' failed!
  Failed to bind XF86AudioRaiseVolume
  
  ** (volumeicon:13084): WARNING **: Binding 'XF86AudioLowerVolume' failed!
  Failed to bind XF86AudioLowerVolume
  
  ** (volumeicon:13084): WARNING **: Binding 'XF86AudioMute' failed!
  Failed to bind XF86AudioMute

xev outputs:
for lower:

KeymapNotify event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  20  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  

for raise:

KeymapNotify event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 

Any ideas how to make them work?
(In Gnome-Shell, they work out of the box.)

I put this in the Laptop subforum, because with my netbook, all this works. I know, the Desktop Environments Subforum would also been an option.

Last edited by Carl Karl (2014-10-08 18:26:15)

Carl Karl

Member

Registered: 2013-06-12

Posts: 231

Re: [solved] XF86AudioRaiseVolume Key not working in XFCE with Toshiba Z30

OK OK, of course pacman -R xfce4-volumed is not enough, a killall xfce4-volumed is also neccesarry! volumeicon works now, solved.