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Media Keys Working In Amarok

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Hello all!
Great news today! I have finally been able to get my media keys on my Saitek Eclipse II keyboard! A million thanks to Boni over at the Amarok forums. He replied to my thread with the simple advice:
Disable all the Shotcuts for Media Playback in System > Settings > Hotkeys in your Ubuntu
So, I went under System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts, and disable all the shortcuts by pressing backspace. I booted up Amarok, set my media keys and... IT WORKED! A billion times thanks to Boni again. This is what I love about Linux, people helping people. I love it! Now to listen to some music with my functioning hotkeys.
posted by linnerd40, Thursday, May 24, 2007


4 Comments:

V intellectual site. I wish I had the grasp of technology you seem to have!
All the best
Gledwood "vol 2"

commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 9:55 AM  

glad this is still up - helped me to solve the same problem.

commented by Blogger icedfusion, 3:30 PM  

does not work for me.. when I go to set the hotkeys, it dosent pick them up.

commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 3:05 PM  

Woooow, thank you! That was so easy! Wonder if they'll still fail when the kde hotkey handler fails on me on a crash/reboot though...

commented by Blogger Tyler Mulligan, 5:11 PM  

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