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Re: Volume control buttons



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Hello,

On May 15, 2008, at 20:13, Pierre Pronchery wrote:

On 2008-05-15, Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
some Sun keyboards have keys to control audio volume and brightness -
we could have them send PMF events instead and teach audio drivers to
listen for them so volume control via keyboard would work out of the
box without any additional voodoo.
Any objections?

If you want to go this way, it should be enough to have them send PMF
events. I think it is more appropriate to let the user decide how this
should interact with the system. Moreover, mixerctl is easy to script
(see below).

My WindowMaker menu is currently intercepting the audio keys like this:
SunAudioLowerVolume => mixerctl -nw monitor.master-=2
SunAudioRaiseVolume => mixerctl -nw monitor.master+=2
SunAudioMute        => mixerctl -nw monitor.master=0

... and that works only in WindowMaker. PMF events work everywhere.

To me this looks better than directly teaching the audio drivers about it.

I'd teach the audio drivers to listen to PMF events, nothing else. Many of them will have to learn that anyway and having a knob to switch the keyboard driver between sending wskbd and PMF events isn't exactly complicated either.

have fun
Michael

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