Gnome 2.2 Acme (Multimedia Keys)

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dbasinge · Post by **dbasinge** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 7:19 pm

What media/mp3 programs work with acme (Gnome Multimedia Keys) or is there a way to get it working with xmms? I have e-mail and web keys working but can't control xmms though it.

Thanks,
Mike

Spack · Post by **Spack** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:32 am

If you have an itouch keyboard you can use the xmms-itouch plugin. You could try this plugin with other keyboards...not sure if it would work but it allows you to change which keys do what so it may be possible.

PARENA · Post by **PARENA** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:48 am

Spack wrote:If you have an itouch keyboard you can use the xmms-itouch plugin. You could try this plugin with other keyboards...not sure if it would work but it allows you to change which keys do what so it may be possible.

FYI: also works with the Microsoft Natural (Pro) keyboard.

dbasinge · Post by **dbasinge** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 2:32 am

A mix of acme and xmms-itouch works great. xmms-itouch has a setup bug that locks the keyboard sometimes though.

Mike

modal · Post by **modal** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 7:56 am

I love this, never heard of acme. It's nice to have the multimedia keys work for me now, since I like to use my wireless keyboard for movie watching and such from afar.
Cool stuff, dude, thanks

maKKus · Post by **maKKus** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 1:57 pm

I'm using lineak for a year now with my logitech keyboard. I'm looking into Acme (because I'm running Gnome as my desktop manager) but I find it to restricting at the moment, no possebility to assign applications to keys

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So 'lineakd -b' stays in my programs to start in gnome-session for a while.

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 3:28 pm

maKKus wrote:I'm using lineak for a year now with my logitech keyboard. I'm looking into Acme (because I'm running Gnome as my desktop manager) but I find it to restricting at the moment, no possebility to assign applications to keys .

So 'lineakd -b' stays in my programs to start in gnome-session for a while.

I've written a mail to the autor of acme to add support for customizing the programs. He wasn't very nice and said this isn't "useful"/"needed"...

maKKus · Post by **maKKus** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 3:58 pm

Well there is choise enough, so I will stick with lineakd, use it for over a year now and never had problems

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steveforse · Post by **steveforse** » Fri May 16, 2003 5:53 am

I was irritated by the fact that I couldn't change which web-browser I wanted to launch from ACME. I opened up the source code for 2.0.2 and grepped for mozilla. I didn't find a thing. This made me think that mozilla was the default browser as set by Gnome. So I looked into preferences Applications->Desktop Preferences->Advanced-> Preferred Applications and changed it from there. I like all the other programs it runs, so I'm done hacking around his source. Of course, I only have 5 media keys, so it probably isn't as much an issue for me as it is for anyone else. I just thought I'd throw that out in case anyone else were wondering how to change the browser.

FruitCake · Post by **FruitCake** » Fri May 16, 2003 7:57 am

on freshmeat.net there is a package xmms-xf86audio or something like that, it adds key bindings to xmms for the standard XF86 audio button keycodes. use acme to map your buttons (which maps them to the correct keycodes) and bobs your uncle

Gnome 2.2 Acme (Multimedia Keys)

Gnome 2.2 Acme (Multimedia Keys)

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