Anno domini 2020 Sun, 24 May 12:38:38 -0400
 Gene Heskett scripsit:
> On Sunday 24 May 2020 11:21:16 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> I've no clue how Nik.  And the procmail gauntlet I run all this stuff 
> past finds and quarantines megabytes of virii and phishing stuff a year, 
> hasn't a clue how to deal with this.  Please get rid of the popup, its 
> not informative in the least, and being an input blocker, it qualifies 
> as a pain in the ass. kmails one line color highlighted advisory message 
> is more than enough of a warning.
> 
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett

Fun part is: why does pientry-gnome3 come up for you? I haven't installed it, maybe just delete thet thing?

Nik


> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett



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