Comment 33 for bug 357673
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| Zoltan Orosz (zoltan-orosz) wrote Re: No notification when sliding audio volume, muting volume, sliding LCD brightness on X31, X32, T60, R50e, T42, R52 | #33 |
This workaround does the trick, but is unfortunately not the prettiest. The keys on the Thinkpads are controlling the hardware mixer (as Henrique & the others explained above) and with the old hotkey-setup, your volume buttons will control the hardware mixer and the software mixer together.
The suggested approach was to find a polling based solution, which is possible (at least for the volume) using a couple files in the /proc filesystem, that store the hardware mixer levels. I'll try hacking up a script for watching these values and sending a notification whenever they change (this way you don't have to control both mixers, and can have the functionality without the bloody hacks).