Make hotkeys reach max volume?

arkansawdave74 · 13 June 2021 16:33

Hello everyone. My laptop volume is a bit too low at the maximum volume attainable with the hotkeys, but acceptable with the maximum volume attainable with the system tray volume slider. I’m tired of having to leave full-screen to adjust the volume. Is there any way to make my hotkeys reach the extra volume that the slider can reach? I wouldn’t mind mapping new hotkeys for it if I need to. Thanks for any help.

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maycne.sonahoz · 13 June 2021 16:44

Have you tried changing your keyboard layout ? Specifying the right brand/model may allow you to handle its multimedia keys.
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/keyboard#layout

arkansawdave74 · 13 June 2021 17:26

I see a few IBM Thinkpad layouts, but no Lenovos. I saw where it mentioned I may need other packages to get the proper layout, so I did pamac searches for lenovo, t440, and thinkpad and found some cool stuff to look at. Thank you.

tpkbdctl-git                                                                                                                                                                 20150819-1           AUR 
    A tool that can be used to control features of the "Lenovo ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint"
tpfand-git
tpb                                                                                                                                                                          0.6.4-2              AUR 
    Access the special buttons on a ThinkPad-Laptop using xosd

and much more not pertaining to keyboard, but a grep for keyboard reveals only 4 entries and none look like a keyboard layout except maybe the one for the USB and the one for Brazilian keyboards.

[user@laptop ~]$ pamac search thinkpad | grep -i keyboard
    the "Lenovo ThinkPad USB Keyboard with
    Auto toggle keyboard back-lighting on Thinkpads
    Keyboard backlight switcher for Thinkpad X1
    Brazilian ABNT-2 Thinkpad keyboard layout for
[user@laptop ~]$

so, I’m hoping for another answer. I will try the IBM Thinkpad layouts though.

arkansawdave74 · 14 June 2021 02:20

I got this one figured out…

I installed pamixer from community repo:
pamac install pamixer
In Settings > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts Tab I mapped these commands to the Super Button plus my usual volume keys (but you can map them wherever you want).

a.) To raise volume:
pamixer --allow-boost -i 5

b.) To lower volume:
pamixer --allow-boost -d 5

c.) To toggle mute:
pamixer -t

system · 29 June 2021 02:20

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