Re: Keyboard volume buttons

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Harsha, Priya <priya.harsha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Hi,>> Can anyone tell me how keyboard's volume buttons are converted into real volume change? Will there be an application that monitors the keyboard volume button events and call ALSA API to set the volume?>> Thanks> Harsha>> _______________________________________________> Alsa-devel mailing list> Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel>
Yes, X catches keypress and lets the window manager know about it. Incase of metacity, which is what GNOME uses, if that key is bound to avolume control action, it calls gnome-volume-control to do theapropriate change. I _believe_ it is so, never checked source code.
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