I have one of those fancy keyboards with the extra media keys. For years, I more or less ignored them. Then my work got my a MacBook, and behold, I got spoiled. Now I want them to work when I'm using my desktop, too. (ubuntu 10.04 using XFCE)
So, how do I do that? I'm most interested in the play/pause button and the volume control buttons. I know how to set them to an application, but I don't know what the command for 'turn volume up' or 'pause banshee'.
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Note: I do not use xubuntu. I tried installing it, but found that adding xfce to ubuntu worked better me than xububtu did. (This happened back in the spring, and I don't remember specifically what my issues were)
Best Answer
Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts (in gnome)
For xfce I found this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XfceMultimediaKeys