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ziggy

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 23

IBM Thinkpad T40 volume applet???

I have bought an old Thinkpad T40 recently and managed to install Arch and XFCE4 successfully.
Now I'm trying to get everything working.
My question is about volume applet (or maybe it has an other name?).
Initially I ran Ubuntu live CD on it and noticed nice window popping up (at the bottom of screen), when I pressed the volume buttons on keyboard.
Can I get something similar in Arch (XFCE4)?
Volume buttons work - they just visually don't change anything.

Thanks in advance,
Zig

PeteMo

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From: H'Burg, VA

Registered: 2006-01-26

Posts: 191

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Re: IBM Thinkpad T40 volume applet???

Take a look at tpb (thinkpad buttons): http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tpb

bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

Re: IBM Thinkpad T40 volume applet???

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41612
or
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42758 if you're into conky.

ziggy

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 23

Re: IBM Thinkpad T40 volume applet???

Thank you!
Tpb does the trick.
But I still have one question.
There is a Archwiki entry Thinkpad OSD which says:

~/.kde/Autostart/tpb-startup.sh:

# Start Thinkpad OSD daemon
if [ -x /usr/bin/tpb ] &&  [ -w /dev/nvram ] && [ -r /dev/nvram ]; then
    /usr/bin/tpb -d
fi

I'm Gnome user and can start /usr/bin/tpb -d from console, but it seems doesn't work when I add it to auto started applications.
What could be wrong in this case?

Thanks,
Zig

Last edited by ziggy (2008-02-04 08:01:30)