Ok, so I was going to buy a mac laptop, which I love, but I didn't, so I settled with my mom's compaq presario, amd athlon4, 256 ram, great machine. After about 5 distros I settled with FC4. Now myproblem is that I usr mac laptops at my school all the time, and I really want to make my laptop all awesome and beastly with the little nifty volume up/down buttons. I comfigured KDE shortcuts with JuK so that when I press the f8 key my juk volume goes up, and f7 makes it go down, but Kmix has no such short cut options. I can get to the shortcut menu by opening the window, but it doesn't have a "step" type of volume. I was thinking of configuring khotkeys so that it would run an argument by kmix and raise the volume, but there is none. Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Peter

Use something like xbindkeys:

http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

works great and it's Desktop independent, meaning you can use anywhere, not only on KDE Env.

Good luck!

I use aumix to adjust the volume like this:

mute:
aumix -v 0

up:
aumix -v +10

down:
aumix -v -10

this will adjust the master volume in 10% increments but you can use aumix to adjust other levels too. (I have to use the pcm level to adjust my volume so I use -w instead of -v) then bind these to the keys you want to use for volume with khotkeys or xbindkeys.

Thanks, I'm going to try that now. This might be wishfull thinking, but does anyone know of a way to make a popup announcement with the volume? If not I don't mind, but it'd be pretty cool.

Thanks,
-Peter