Tim wrote:
That appears to work. Though still doesn't help me with one or two useful buttons on this keyboard (e.g. un/mute the sound, volume up/down).
Tony Nelson:
"Mute" isn't all it's cracked up to be. For me, it just sets the volume to 0, and there is no "Unmute", only the volume up. (On my keyboard there are no volume and mute buttons, so I use the otherwise useless Search, Favorites, and Web/Home.)
I could live with that. My main interest for mute is to quickly shut up the computer when I answer the phone.
There are other buttons on the keyboard I thought I'd try out, though I've never used similar ones on a Windows box (ones to open the mail client, web browser, search, back and forth buttons, three confusing ones with a moon [sleep?], computer icon [wakeup?] and a calculator. None of which I could make do anything, not that I particularly cared. It was just that they were there...
But there are a few more buttons which sounded a bit more useful (mute, volume up & down), and some more that I might use too (stop, play/pause, back track, forward track). I can get XMMS to notice the play/pause button with some xmms-acme RPM, which is useful (allows me to answer the phone without the computer making a racket), but it doesn't pay attention to any other key presses.
Actually, I wouldn't mind if the global key shortcut preferences didn't do much, so long as any application I would like to control let me choose my shortcut keys. Too many applications seem to pick weird keys for common functions.