On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 16:09 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 28.12.09 08:08, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi, I've been using my Jabra Halo stereo (A2DP) headset with pulse and > > gnome-bluetooth for several months now, works great. > > > > A question though, does pulseaudio or gnome-bluetooth (not sure who'd be > > responsible for this) support the media keys (next track, previous > > track) on my headset, or on any bluetooth headset? I'd assume these keys > > are standard across headsets, since they all work on the same devices > > (bluetooth mp3 or cellphones etc.) > > bluetoothd forwards AVRCP key events to user applications by creating > a virtual input device (uinput) for it in the kernel. Applications > that handle /dev/input devices properly (such as X) should be able to > make use of it without any modification. I don't have any other /dev/input/by-id/* device created when connecting my headset. That would probably be the root of my issues. Perhaps I forgot a kernel compile option.... I believe this is OT for this list however? Who should I contact on this? > Note however that there is currently no way in X to map keypresses to > the devices they originate from. That means that volume change > keypresses do not necesarily change the volume of the device they were > triggered from. Not an issue in my situation.
