Volume keys not working properly

[houghi]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:56:53AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> You are obviously using two different volume controls. The panel plugin
> is using xfce4-mixer (ALSA) and the keys are handled by
> gnome-sound-applet or gnome-volume-control (name depends on the GNOME
> version you use, likely uses PulseAudio). You better only use one.

Nothing was running from the above from gnome.

> 
> This means: 
>      1. Disable the startup of gnome-* in xfce4-session-settings. 

It wasn't enabled. :-/

>      2. Let Xfce handle the keys. 
>              1. Either install xfce4-volumed or 
>              2. set up keys in xfce4-keyboard-settings, e.g with
>                 XF86AudioRaiseVolume key: amixer set Master 10%+ -q"
>                 XF86AudioLowerVolume key: amixer set Master 10%- -q"
>                 XF86AudioMute key: amixer set Master toogle -q"
> 
> If you use the latter, make sure amixer is installed.

amixer was already installed so that now works. Thanks for getting it to
work.

Still a bit confused as to why it stopped working in the first place.

houghi
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