> my keyboard has a scroll wheel, and I currently > have it hooked via dwm to run an external shell script to > increase/decrease the volume.
>anyone got any smart ideas about this? Write a simple volume control daemon, that makes a named pipe. Then, in dwm call spawn on shell commands that echo "UP", "DOWN" , or whatever to the pipe. Then, in the daemon itself, wait until changes stop coming off the pipe to actually set the volume.