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.
Can anyone suggest a way to activate the volume keys automatically on login?
Thanks, Jon
On 05/27/2016 12:10 PM, 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.
Can anyone suggest a way to activate the volume keys automatically on login?
I use Xfce so this may not apply, but have you saved your session?
I'm not sure about Mate, but IIRC, by default session info isn't saved under Xfce unless you go into "Applications->Settings->Session and Startup" and tick the "Save Session on Logout" box in the "General" tab and either log out or go to the "Session" tab and click the "Save Session" button (which I generally do any time I change stuff here). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On 05/27/2016 12:44 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
I use Xfce so this may not apply, but have you saved your session?
I'm not sure about Mate, but IIRC, by default session info isn't saved under Xfce unless you go into "Applications->Settings->Session and Startup" and tick the "Save Session on Logout" box in the "General" tab and either log out or go to the "Session" tab and click the "Save Session" button (which I generally do any time I change stuff here).
I also use Xfce. When you log out or restart, you're asked if you want to save your session and, IIRC, it starts out checked. Mostly I leave it unchecked so that each session starts the way I expect it to, but if I've made a change that I want to be sure gets kept, I'll check it, log out and back in. Still, it's quite possible that Mate is discarding changes at the end of the session and it's a Good Idea to check.
On 05/27/2016 12:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/27/2016 12:44 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
I use Xfce so this may not apply, but have you saved your session?
I'm not sure about Mate, but IIRC, by default session info isn't saved under Xfce unless you go into "Applications->Settings->Session and Startup" and tick the "Save Session on Logout" box in the "General" tab and either log out or go to the "Session" tab and click the "Save Session" button (which I generally do any time I change stuff here).
I also use Xfce. When you log out or restart, you're asked if you want to save your session and, IIRC, it starts out checked.
That's if the "Prompt on logout" checkbox is ticked. To be honest, it's been a LONG time since I did a fresh install of Xfce (my machines have been updated out the wazoo), and I always have a backup of my home directory so I can restore my stuff if things get ugly. As a result, I don't recall how it looks by default.
Mostly I leaveit unchecked so that each session starts the way I expect it to, but if I've made a change that I want to be sure gets kept, I'll check it, log out and back in.
I want things to appear the way they were when last I logged in, so I have both the "Prompt on logout" and "Automatically save session on logout" ticked. Belt and braces!
Still, it's quite possible that Mate is discardingchanges at the end of the session and it's a Good Idea to check.
Amen, bruddah! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:44:09PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 05/27/2016 12:10 PM, 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.
Can anyone suggest a way to activate the volume keys automatically on login?
I use Xfce so this may not apply, but have you saved your session?
I'm not sure about Mate, but IIRC, by default session info isn't saved under Xfce unless you go into "Applications->Settings->Session and Startup" and tick the "Save Session on Logout" box in the "General" tab and either log out or go to the "Session" tab and click the "Save Session" button (which I generally do any time I change stuff here).
Mate has that also. Typically I leave it set to not automatically save. Then when I want to change my starting session I set things up the way I like, turn the setting on and logout. Next login, (i.e. immediately) I turn it off again.
I've saved a session with the keys functioning but it had no effect on them next login, they were off.
Jon
On 05/27/2016 01:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I've saved a session with the keys functioning but it had no effect on them next login, they were off.
Thank you; at least we've eliminated one possible answer. As I told a caller once when I was doing tech support, "Much of trouble shooting is going down one blind alley after another until one of them isn't."
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:52:28PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/27/2016 01:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I've saved a session with the keys functioning but it had no effect on them next login, they were off.
Thank you; at least we've eliminated one possible answer. As I told a caller once when I was doing tech support, "Much of trouble shooting is going down one blind alley after another until one of them isn't."
One other bit; I'm using a Logitech wireless keyboard, model K800. It shares the "Unifying" usb-receiver with my mouse.
Mate's keyboard properties dialog shows many Logitech models but not the K800. I've set the model type to generic "Logitech Cordless".
Jon
On 05/27/2016 02:30 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:52:28PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/27/2016 01:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I've saved a session with the keys functioning but it had no effect on them next login, they were off.
Thank you; at least we've eliminated one possible answer. As I told a caller once when I was doing tech support, "Much of trouble shooting is going down one blind alley after another until one of them isn't."
One other bit; I'm using a Logitech wireless keyboard, model K800. It shares the "Unifying" usb-receiver with my mouse.
Mate's keyboard properties dialog shows many Logitech models but not the K800. I've set the model type to generic "Logitech Cordless".
Sounds like the keyboard shortcuts aren't being saved. You could post a question on the Mate message board:
http://forums.mate-desktop.org/
or join the #mate channel on irc.freenode.net and ask there. They might be able to help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "I was contemplating the immortal words of Socrates when he said, - - 'I drank WHAT?'" -- Val Kilmer in "Real Genius" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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.
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
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