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Osiris

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[SOLVED] Multimedia keys -> symbolic keycode

Hello,

after a recent HD crash, which unfortunately took my /etc directory to oblivion, some of my multimedia keys on my Thinkpad T440s are not translated to symbolic codes anymore.

I am using xev to find out that XF86AudioMicMute, XF86AudioMicMute, XF86Display, XF86WLAN, XF86Search and XF86Tools are translated, while others return no symbolic code:

e.g. Volume Up

MappingNotify event, serial 49, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

FocusOut event, serial 49, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 50, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 50, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2   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   

Which goes alike for volume down and brightness up/down.

I am pretty sure, I didn't set up a manual mapping when I setup my machine, so I wonder if it's just a package missing.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

Last edited by Osiris (2018-07-27 06:25:14)

linux-mate

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Re: [SOLVED] Multimedia keys -> symbolic keycode

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Osiris

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Re: [SOLVED] Multimedia keys -> symbolic keycode

I have solved it. Problem was two-fold. Firstly, a wrong script path, bound to the key cause the funcationality not to work. Secondly, because the key was bound, it didn't show up in xev, which steered me into the wrong direction.

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Multimedia keys -> symbolic keycode

(just suggested manjaro  it's my favorite for linux beginers and it's arch based)

Don't do that. It's not Arch based.

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