Thanks a lot. That helps! >-----Original Message----- >From: alsa-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alsa-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >On Behalf Of Lennart Poettering >Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:30 PM >To: alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Keyboard volume buttons > >On Fri, 27.02.09 08:06, Vedran Miletić (rivanvx@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> 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. In >> case of metacity, which is what GNOME uses, if that key is bound to a >> volume control action, it calls gnome-volume-control to do the >> apropriate change. I _believe_ it is so, never checked source code. > >It is actually not the window manager. > >In GNOME it is a little daemon that runs in the session and is called >gnome-settings-daemon. It does a lot of little thinks, one of them >handling volume key events and showing a nice OSD for it. > >Lennart > >-- >Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. >lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 >http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 >_______________________________________________ >Alsa-devel mailing list >Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
