Aaaand, one to the list, seeing as I forgot.
On 18/05/2022 16:52, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 14:21:48 BST you wrote:
Interesting. What about Linux Mint Debian Edition?
I didn't try that, see below.
What if you plug the keyboard into your laptop?
My Dell XPS13 laptop comes with multimedia keys of its own, so I
booted it up
and tried playing some tracks in Clementine. Everything worked. However,
this was with Kubuntu 21.10 installed.
I then upgraded to 22.04 and the multimedia keys continued to work as they
should. I then plugged in the Cherry K/B and, guess what? The keys all
worked.
Huh, must be some configuration then. Maybe making a copy of /etc on
both machines and then comparing the difference between the files. I'm
not sure if there's some fancy recursive diff command to make that easy,
but Ralph might know :)
This is odd because I upgraded the desktop too, so this problem
presumably has
to do with some other software that I have installed on my desktop but
not on
my laptop. There's a lot of that, so it may be a losing battle to track it
down. Unless any other ideas are forthcoming, I think I'm going to
have to do
a clean installation of Kubuntu 22.04 and then add the software back, one
package at a time until it either breaks or I get a fully functional
system.
I thought you said it didn't work with live media on your desktop though?
See the above, and also maybe comparing the contents of ~/.config and/or
~/.local (and some of the other .folders) on both systems might be useful.
I hope you don't have to do a fresh install, they're really annoying.
Maybe sticking to Kubuntu LTS releases would help - I had a really
terrible experience from around 2012-2014 until I started sticking with
the LTS releases. Granted, that was a long time ago and maybe that just
reflects when I'd learnt enough to not break things when I was messing
around with the system.
Debian might also be more stable, if, like me, you really don't like
where Canonical's going with snaps.
Hope this helps,
Hamish
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