Hi there!
I am on a laptop that allows adjusting its volume only with softkeys. When using gnome or unity I can use these softkeys out of the box, is there any way to enable the keys in i3? Or at least have a "tray icon" where I can change the volume like you can with windows?
As for tray icon: That depends on what sound backend you use. For alsa, volwheel seems popular with people who dig light applications. For pulseaudio, I am using pavucontrol from a keyboard shortcut. No tray icon, but also one mouseclick less.
To assign a command to a soft key press, you need to find out what command to send. You can assign the key to this command in your i3/config. One way to find out what keycode to use, is launch xev in a terminal and see what the X-server returns when you press the key.
There is a nice overview of how to work with xev on the archwiki.
Asked: 2012-06-14 10:36:14 +0000
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