Volume keys not working properly

[John Altstatt]

Houghi;

I have never used Xinerama so this problem is new to me.

BTW, I'm running xfce-4.8.0

-J

On 08/21/2011 02:15 PM, houghi wrote:
> 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