On Sunday 24 May 2020 08:11:34 Uwe Brauer wrote: > Hi thanks for this detailed answer > > > For the time being (till R14.1.0 is out - possibly end of 2020) > > you have the following choices: > > > > 1) you can mute/unmute from the KMix slider LED, this should work > > fine with PA already > > This works but it is inconvenient since you have to fiddle with > controls > > > 2) you can open KMix mixer windod -> Settings -> Configure global > > shortcuts and remap the "toggle mute" keyboard shortcut to some > > other key combination. Do not use "XF86AudioMute" key, since this > > is normally used by KMilo and therefore may not work > > Thanks for this but: it does *not work*. > > I just bound it to Win+F1 for testing: > this �Toogle mute� only switches the > master but not the speaker, so it does the same as does Fn-F1 > > > 3) you can create a script that calls "dcop kmix Mixer-1 > > toggleMasterMute", this will mute/unmute the PA master channel. > > You can add an input action tied to a keyboard shortcut to call > > this easy. > > The script works, nicely > > > 4) if you are on debian-like distro, you could switch to Slavek's > > PTB packages and get the latest R14.1.0-dev packages at regular > > intervals. This will bring you the complete fix in a few days > > does that mean Ubuntu included? > > Would you mind telling me the ppa? > > Thanks again > > Uwe > PS I signed this message, since you did the same, some people do > complain, though Thats because the key issuer is some sort of all caps, 3 line swahili we never heard of before. All of a sudden we're getting popups from pientry-gnome3 asking us to swear that this key signer is legit. How theheck are wwe to know? And it doesn't copy-paste, blocks all other input while its present on screen. Being the paranoid old fart I am, I am not about to click ok on such a mystery message. click on close or cancel changes the main, yellow kmail warning to click this for details, I click and it then says no details available. Is there a switch to shut this stuff off? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>