Since I installed antiX I have not been able to control the sound level. But now I found a file /.icevm/keys with some nice shortcuts defined. I believe the shortcuts for sound are
I simply cannot figure out what the KP_Divide and KP_Multiply bottons are? Also, my laptop has bottons for sound-level - would it be possible to assign the sound-level adjustment to them (that would sort of make sense, I think)?

The multiply and divide keys are the ones on your numeric keypad, I believe. Also, I'm pretty sure you need to install aumix for this to work. There is a post in the icewm thread of the tips and tricks subforum that explains how to add a volume slider button to your taskbar.

For multimedia keyboards, I asked about it at mepislovers, but never really followed up on it. There are programs in the repos that will allow you to use mm keyboards, but I don't remember any off-hand.

john

Please see this post for tips on adding a volume slider that resides on your icewm taskbar:


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john

Down load it from here:


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Thanks for the assisst, erie. I found out that the link in iceweasel no longer has the .deb package and after a google search I too found it at freshmeat. I updated the post in the above link to reflect this.

john

Now there is a deb for this app, we'll include it in antiX-M8

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john

Thanks everybody. However, I am not sure which post you are referring to? Is it this one
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anti - thanks!

danish - link fixed.

john

danish, you will see that here is already a line in .cewm/toobar file that refers to volume. Just uncomment it.

If you get problems with it not opening, do the following.

Install alsa-oss
As root in a terminal, type modprobe snd-mixer-oss

The volume should now work.

anticapitalista wrote:danish, you will see that here is already a line in .cewm/toobar file that refers to volume. Just uncomment it.

If you get problems with it not opening, do the following.

Install alsa-oss
As root in a terminal, type modprobe snd-mixer-oss

The volume should now work.

For some reason that is not working out for me? Here is what I did:

1) uncommented the /.icevm/toolbar line, saved and rebooted - no result.
2) So I installed also-oss and wrote modprobe snd-mixer-oss and rebooted - no result

Then I noticed the message at top of the toolbar file about creating a of the file in home/.icevm

3) So I undid 1) and as sux I opened rox two times from a terminal and copied the whole /.icevm directory to home and uncommented the line in the copy instead - rebooted and: nothing.

Did you mean to do these things on top of downloading the slider form the link, or did I do something wrong?

You need to download the slider .deb and then carry out the steps if the slider doesn't work.
No need to reboot, just logout and log back in.