Timeline for How to enable my keyboard's volume keys in XFCE?
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| Nov 15, 2022 at 19:15 | comment | added | Trevor | Worked great on Mint 19 with a laptop that doesn't have media keys. I set it to Alt + Up and Alt + Down. This solution even shows the volume up and down indicator when pressed. Perfect! | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 21:44 | comment | added | Alfonso Nishikawa | Installing xfce4-volumed was what really fixed my problem, as @Jon suggested. | |
| Aug 14, 2019 at 9:41 | comment | added | somethis | If you don't have Multimedia keys here's a suggestion for keybindings: Volume Up ALT + PageUp, Volume Down ALT + PageDown, Mute ALT + Pos1. Though it is more of a Windows standard to use the PageUp and Down keys for volume it is mapped in a lot of software, too. Still, Firefox uses STRG + Page Up to switch between Tabs so just use ALT. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 22:04 | comment | added | Paul | This fixed the problem for me in Fedora 30. | |
| Oct 26, 2018 at 8:26 | comment | added | Jon | @Blauhirn You can instead install xfce4-volumed-pulse (which appears to be packaged as xfce4-volumed in Ubuntu 18.04) to get hotkey support without a panel plugin. Launchpad | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 0:36 | comment | added | phil294 | I dont want an item in my panel just for working hotkeys. Pretty strange solution | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 9:56 | comment | added | Zeta.Investigator | nice. Worked for my setup: Ubuntu 18 + xfce4 | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 6:04 | comment | added | bnewbold | For future searchers: this solved my problem in a Thinkpad X1 when upgrading from Debian jessie to Debian stretch | |
| Jun 20, 2017 at 8:37 | vote | accept | Nova | ||
| Feb 4, 2017 at 20:51 | history | answered | Nova | CC BY-SA 3.0 |