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yukonho

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Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 3

How to get xfce-notifyd to display Thinkpad T40 volume and brightness

I'm running XFCE 4.8 on a Thinkpad T40. The volume and brightness buttons are wired directly to the hardware, and I can also view the current level of the volume and brightness in /proc/acpi/ibm/.

cat /proc/acpi/ibm/volume returns something like:

level:        1
mute:        off

and cat /proc/acpi/ibm/britghtness has something like:

level:        7
commands:    up, down
commands:    level <level> (<level> is 0-7)

The "level" numbers change appropriately. In XFCE I know that notifications are working properly by testing it via the Settings panel and doing a notify-send test. How do I link the notifications to the volume and brightness to get their respective notifications to appear?

Thanks very much!