[SOLVED]Volume keys not working (KDE Plasma 5)

jbenge1 · 2018-04-09 21:46:24

I have yet to find a solution to this, but all my keyborad shortucts work aside from the one's that effect the volume ie the screen brightness shortcuts work and the ones for the keyboard backlights.
The shortcuts are "fn+f(10)(11)(12)"

I am pretty new to arch and have never used the KDE Plasma enviornment before either.

Last edited by jbenge1 (2018-04-10 21:21:43)

V1del · 2018-04-09 22:28:50

Did you install and start any volume mixer? Like plasma-pa if you use pulseaudio or kmix if you need an ALSA mixer?

jbenge1 · 2018-04-09 23:40:18

I have plasma-pa and pulseaudio both installed yes this is the output of pluseaudio --start

N: [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {749ce45728184f729f7463a3e4fc3009}unix:/run/user/1000/pulse/native, which appears to be local. Probing deeper.

V1del · 2018-04-10 07:41:41

IIRC the keybinds might not be set up by default, but given that plasma-pa is installed you should find the knobs to adjust in KDE's shortcut handler in system settings

jbenge1 · 2018-04-10 15:03:27

In global shortcuts under system settings, it says that volume down/up/mute is mapped to the volume down/up/mute keys respectively however they do not work, and after trying to change them manually to the same thing and something different I have had no luck

V1del · 2018-04-10 20:33:38

There might be two controls for that, do you have multiple volume up down controls listed in the global shortcut section? Try a few there might be some left overs from kmix or similar. If that's not it, you do have plasma-pa started? I.e. you do have a systemsettings widget in your panel and have configured it to show you the volume meter?

jbenge1 · 2018-04-10 20:41:07

I do not have a widget in my panel that shows the volume meter. I am uncertain of how to start plasma-pa though after running systemctl --type=service I see nothing that resembles plasma-pa (also not sure if that's where it would show up or not)

V1del · 2018-04-10 20:50:51

If you have a systemsettings panel (where e.g. networkmanager applet and the USB stick device manager is) right click that "settings for system tray" (or similar) you should see a list of available system settings plasmoids, one of them should be volume meter, enable that.

Alternatively, to be sure, right click anywhere on your desktop and add widget, and then add a volume widget, that will likely be a bit out of place though but should guarantee you that widget somewehere. (You could also add that standalone to a panel, without explicitly using the system tray, but well that's the flexibility of plasma you can have that thing anywhere you want )

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jbenge1 · 2018-04-10 20:57:14

Oh man, just adding a widget to the panel worked and now I feel a little silly, but thank you!!!!

V1del · 2018-04-10 21:13:51

No problem, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing your intial post's title: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

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#1 2018-04-09 21:46:24

[SOLVED]Volume keys not working (KDE Plasma 5)

#2 2018-04-09 22:28:50

Re: [SOLVED]Volume keys not working (KDE Plasma 5)

#3 2018-04-09 23:40:18

Re: [SOLVED]Volume keys not working (KDE Plasma 5)

#4 2018-04-10 07:41:41

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#5 2018-04-10 15:03:27

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#6 2018-04-10 20:33:38

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