Ubuntu
indicator-sound package

  1. Bug #521088
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 521088

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 521088] Re: cant change the volume using keyboard

On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 17:21 +0000, Rick Spencer wrote:
> Confirmed on my Dell mini10v. This is a serious accessibility
> regression. We must be mindful at all times of our users who cannot use
> a mouse due to physical limitations. (not to mention netbook users).
> Please fix this asap.

The applet isn't what is handling keyboard shortcuts for raising and
lowering volume. That is handled by gnome-settings-daemon. This might
be an issue with some of the packaging. Do you have:

  /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libsound.so

That I believe is the module that handles those keys.

  affects ubuntu/gnome-settings-daemon