xbindkeys not working at all

bdjnk · 2009-09-01 15:20:10

This is my .xbindkeysrc

"amixer sset Master 2+ &"
    m:0x0 + c:123
    XF86AudioRaiseVolume
"amixer sset Master 2- &"
    m0x0 + c:122
    XF86AudioLowerVolume
"amixer sset Master toggle &"
    m0x0 + c:121
    XF86AudioMute
"xbacklight +10"
    m:0x0 + c:233
    XF86MonBrightnessUp
"xbacklight -10"
    m0x0 + c:232
    XF86MonBrightnessDown

And while xbacklight does raise and lower the screen brightness, and the fn keys are returning the above values, this still doesn't work.

I've made sure xbindkeys is running. I've gone over everything for possible typos. I've searched around for a solution. And I've concluded that I'm completely baffled.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

bender02 · 2009-09-01 15:59:52

One thing I don't understand why do you have 3 lines for each command, I think that the default is two. (at least, that's what 'xbindkeys -d' says). The other thing I wanted to say is that you can run 'xbindkeys -n', that way it won't go to the background and it will print what's happening.

SpeedVin · 2009-09-01 17:42:22

bdjnk wrote:

This is my .xbindkeysrc
"amixer sset Master 2+ &"
    m:0x0 + c:123
    XF86AudioRaiseVolume
"amixer sset Master 2- &"
    m0x0 + c:122
    XF86AudioLowerVolume
"amixer sset Master toggle &"
    m0x0 + c:121
    XF86AudioMute
"xbacklight +10"
    m:0x0 + c:233
    XF86MonBrightnessUp
"xbacklight -10"
    m0x0 + c:232
    XF86MonBrightnessDown
And while xbacklight does raise and lower the screen brightness, and the fn keys are returning the above values, this still doesn't work.
I've made sure xbindkeys is running. I've gone over everything for possible typos. I've searched around for a solution. And I've concluded that I'm completely baffled.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Are you have xbindkeys command in your .xinitrc?

ralvez · 2009-09-01 18:57:03

Are you using KDE4?
If you do, then you may have a problem with some settings. I use xbindkeys and there are a number of occasions where KDE has a short-cut defined and it seems to take precedence.
I also noticed that some of my MM keys fail and KDE suggests that the key was not found or something while in the CLI I can see the command is correct.

R.

bdjnk · 2009-09-02 01:22:54

Hi guys, thanks for the quick replies! I was at work the whole day hence the delayed response.

To answer you questions in no particular order. Yes I have the xbindkeys command in my .xinitrc and it is starting when X does. No I am not using KDE4, I am using the awesome wm.

And lastly, when I run xbindkeys -n I receive the following message: Warning: unkown key in RC file : /home/[username]/.xbindkeysrc

At this point I am going to recheck all the keys and make sure once more that I have no typos. I am also going to try with just the key name (eg. XF86MonBrightnessDown), and then with just the key code (eg. m0x0 + c:232).

I will post to this thread again if the problem persists.

bdjnk · 2009-09-02 01:43:28

Sorry for the quick double post, but I've had a bit of a break.

For testing purposes I reduced the uncommented portion of my .xbindkeysrc to just

"xbacklight -10"
    m0x0 + c:232

I made sure that I was using the key code exactly as it had been returned by xbindkeys -k. So this should've worked.

Running xbindkeys -n still gave me the warning I mentioned, but now there was also a second line which said: Error in alocation of keys

A quick google search then led me to the xbindkeys source code which simply states

  790   if (keys == NULL)
  791     {
  792       fprintf (stderr, "Error in alocation of keys\n");
  793       return (-1);
  794     }

And now I am doubly confused, because after all, it was xbindkeys itself that gave me the key code to use.

Last edited by bdjnk (2009-09-02 15:09:01)

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#1 2009-09-01 15:20:10

xbindkeys not working at all

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Re: xbindkeys not working at all

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