Volume keys not working properly

[houghi]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 08:51:26AM -0700, John Altstatt wrote:
> Houghi;
> 
> I have these in auto-start:
> 
> Volume Control (Show desktop volume control)   and

When activated, it shows something similar I already have on the taskbar
and works there. No effect on the multi-media keys.

> XFCE Volume daemon (Daemon managing the volume multimedia keys and
> displaying volume notification)

I did not have that installed and I sure did not remove it. It used to
work perfectly in the beginning. I added it and ran it. See the results
below. Weird stuff.

> I'm running openSuse 11.4 64bit on hp dv7-4274nr laptop, and the
> multimediakeys worked out-of-the-box.
> I had to struggle with this on earlier versions of the OS and xfce.

Never tried them before and when I did with 10.4 it worked and then it
stopped.

> ps -ef shows:
> gnome-volume-control-applet running
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog running

Those I had as well, but nothing.

Now somthing very strange is happening. I also have three monitors not in
Xinerama

When I have an active window on the first screen then the keys work. I
have the Mixer plugin on the first screen. When I have NO active program
in the first screen, then it does NOT work. 

Somehow what I think is that while the keys are recognised as being
pressed (Otherwise I would not see the big icon) they are somehow not
passed on to whatever it was that previously handled the key-press.

houghi
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