The media buttons for increasing/decreasing the volume of audio output and the mute-button stopped working out of nowhere. The buttons are still recognized by the system, as I can select them to perform the desired action in the gnome control centre, but pressing on of these buttons will do nothing. All the other buttons of the fn-row are working properly.
xev says on button-press:
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
root 0x9d, subw 0x0, time 190010, (19,-11), root:(1244,41),
state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
root 0x9d, subw 0x0, time 190104, (19,-11), root:(1244,41),
state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
root 0x9d, subw 0x0, time 191040, (19,-11), root:(1244,41),
state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
root 0x9d, subw 0x0, time 191118, (19,-11), root:(1244,41),
state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
What can I do to get them working again?
EDIT: Ok, so I tried to create a shortcut for "Volume up", using the command pactl set-sink-volume 0 +10%
. Binding it to Strg++ worked, but binding it to the "Volume up"-Button has no effect.
Best Answer
I found a solution. Apparently, the values of some
dconf
keys were mixed up, see here. All I did was:Works wonderful now. Thank you all for your help!