Re: where's the hotkey volume/mute control applet

[Paul Fox <pgf foxharp boston ma us>]

someone replied to my message privately and said they thought
that gnome accessed the mixer directly, in an unconfigurable
way.  is this really true?  i'm pretty new at gnome, but i
would have thought that the purpose of gconf was to make all
default actions configurable...

paul

a few days ago, i wrote:
 > 
 > i'm trying to find the command that's run when i use the
 > volup/voldown/mute function keys on our ubuntu (breezy badger)
 > laptop.  (gnome 2.12?)
 > 
 > i've traced from the keys, through the scripts in /etc/acpi,
 > through acpi_fakekey, and then to the mappings in the gnome
 > "keyboard shortcuts" applet.  but i can't figure out what it is
 > that actually puts up and moves the small slider image, nor can i
 > figure out what the real end-action is -- i.e, is there a
 > user-level program invoked?
 > 
 > shouldn't i be able to find this mapping somewhere in the gconf
 > tree?  if it's there, i sure can't find it...
 > 
 > paul

=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf foxharp boston ma us (arlington, ma, where it's 36.9 degrees)