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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Thinkpad X1: FN F1 silence audio, but cannot be activated via the fn keys

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 17:21:16 +0200
Anno domini 2020 Sun, 24 May 10:59:51 -0400
 Gene Heskett scripsit:
> 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?

I have a filter for kmail that handles anoying stuff. Signed mails are not in this group for me, so it's missing this feature ... but feel free to extend it :)

Nik

> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett



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