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11-17-2009, 09:13 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Germany
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 6
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New and trying to work out kinks
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.
Last edited by partiallysane; 11-17-2009 at 09:19 AM.
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11-17-2009, 09:55 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
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1) No idea about that.
2) Find some useful guides here (download or read online):
http://tldp.org/guides.html
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11-18-2009, 02:15 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Germany
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 6
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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.
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11-18-2009, 02:53 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Fargo, ND
Distribution: SuSE AMD64
Posts: 15,733
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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
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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.
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11-18-2009, 02:57 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Germany
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 6
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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.
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