New and trying to work out kinks

partiallysane · 11-17-2009, 09:13 AM

I just switched from Vista to Ubuntu on my Vaio pcg-3g5l laptop and I have two main questions,

1) Is there any possible way to make my volume slider (little touch bar about keyboard) work again?

2) Does anyone have a good link to where I can learn more terminal commands?

3) Is there anyway to move the alerts that pop up in the upper right hand side of the screen to somewhere else? I like them, I just want to move them around.

brianL · 11-17-2009, 09:55 AM

1) No idea about that.
2) Find some useful guides here (download or read online):

http://tldp.org/guides.html

partiallysane · 11-18-2009, 02:15 AM

Well that guide is helpful, I guess I'll just keep playing around with the other problems. On number 1 I was thinking of finding the programming that makes it run with vista and try to tweak it to work with mz Ubuntu.

jschiwal · 11-18-2009, 02:53 AM

Run "xev" and operate the slider.

Code:

KeyRelease event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x13c, subw 0x0, time 179199387, (97,49), root:(101,531),
    state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                                      
    XFilterEvent returns: False   
...
KeyRelease event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x13c, subw 0x0, time 179195392, (97,49), root:(101,531),
    state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                                      
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Create a file containing the keycodes and definitions.

Code:

keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume

You might want to include other media keys such as Stop, Play, Next, Prev and add them as well.
Suppose this file is ~/.Xmodmap. Then run "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" and try the audio volume slider.
You will need to have a mixer running.

partiallysane · 11-18-2009, 02:57 AM

Thanks jschiwal, that'll probally be the first hing I do when I get home and back to my system. I was stumped with that one but now I have a great starting point.