Volume control keys intercepted by materm

[Leo Alekseyev-2]

Hi mrxvt-ers,
on my Windows laptop the volume control keys (Function-F8 and
Function-F9) get intercepted by mrxvt have the equivalent of typing
characters "b" and "c".  Oddly enough, other control keys (e.g. for
brightness) don't get caught by mrxvt.  It gets annoying sometimes,
but I don't know how I would start troubleshooting...  Let me know if
you've got any hints!
--Leo

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[Gautam Iyer-3]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:18:42AM -0400, Leo Alekseyev wrote:

> on my Windows laptop the volume control keys (Function-F8 and
> Function-F9) get intercepted by mrxvt have the equivalent of typing
> characters "b" and "c".  Oddly enough, other control keys (e.g. for
> brightness) don't get caught by mrxvt.  It gets annoying sometimes,
> but I don't know how I would start troubleshooting...  Let me know if
> you've got any hints!

Run some other X program (e.g. Xterm) and press these keys. I'm willing
to bet that they'll still be intercepted.

Mrxvt interprets whatever keys are sent to it by the X server. On most
laptops (or at least on *my* laptop) the brightness keys generate ACPI
events, not keystrokes. These are handled correctly by the X server /
display driver, and pressing them results in increasing / decreasing the
brightness respectively.

The volume control keys however generate keystrokes, which are supposed
to be handled by a client application. I'm not sure what you'll do with
this on Windows, but on Linux any reasonable window manager should be
able to intercept these keystrokes. For example, I use Fvwm and the
following do the trick for me:

    key XF86AudioMute     A N Exec exec amixer -q set Master toggle
    key XF86AudioRaiseVolume A N Exec exec amixer -q set PCM 2+
    key XF86AudioLowerVolume A N Exec exec amixer -q set PCM 2-

On windows, you're on your own. (Perhaps posting to a Cygwin list might
get you someone more knowledgeable).

GI

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