On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 03:27:27PM +0930, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 15:10 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Running F23, mate desktop and compiz.
Each time I login the three volume keys on my keyboard cause no action. If I go into the program "/usr/bin/mate-keyboard-properties" either as a CLI or the System->Preferences menu and immediately exit the keys work as expected.
Going off from a related tangent from other suggestions, have a look at your session preferences for startup programs - the ones that are automatically fired off when you login (generally system things, rather than applications that you've used).
On my older-than-yours installation using Mate, one of them is the MATE Settings Daemon. That sounds a prime candidate for your issue. Check that it is ticked. Or even try the Windows toggle off-back-on-again trick.
Thanks Tim, that seems to have done the job.
I checked and in my current session mate-settings-daemon was running. But it was not checked as an auto-startup program. Probably something else caused it to run, perhaps my launching the keyboard properties program.
Anyway, I checked it to run at startup and the volume keys were active without my taking any action.
While you're in there, you may find a bunch of things that auto start that you don't use. You can switch them off for less things to wait for when you log-in.
I keep it pretty tight already. That is probably why the settings-daemon was not checked.
Thanks again, Jon