xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin: Control with multimedia keys

[Viktor Odintsev]

Hi, Paul.

It seems that pa-plugin hasn't grabbed the keys. Normally xev should never
catch these keys if another X application has grabbed them.

Can you try to restart the panel from terminal and look at the output? 
pa-plugin
should print a warning message (something like "Could not have grabbed 
volume
control keys").

Regarding changelog. It says about MPRIS2 integration and multimedia buttons
(play, stop, etc) support, you can enable it in plugin properties. A volume
control keys support was added to pa-plugin a long time ago.

Regards,
Viktor

On 24/05/18 18:29, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Xfce folks,
>
>
> We moved from Xfce4-mixer to Xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin 0.4.1 and it 
> basically works in the standard configuration.
>
> Judging from the change-log of the 0.4.0 release, I hoped that 
> multimedia buttons would work.
>
>> - MPRIS2 integration: playback controls, multimedia keyboard
>> integration, and playlist support
>
> But pressing the keys on the keyboard here, they generate the events, 
> but the volume remains unchanged.
>
> ```
> KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
>     root 0x117, subw 0x0, time 1729987027, (-260,154), root:(1571,1154),
>     state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), 
> same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
>
> KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
>     root 0x117, subw 0x0, time 1729987259, (-260,154), root:(1571,1154),
>     state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), 
> same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> ```
>
> Does something need to be configured additionally to get multimedia 
> keyboards integrated?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> PS: Please tell me, if I should report these issues to the bug tracker 
> instead.
>
>
>
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