On Thursday, 29 March 2018 8:55:56 PM AEDT Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: > On 29/03/18 16:34, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > I've done a fresh install of Debian/Testing on a new laptop and the volume > > control buttons aren't working. They make no apparent difference to the > > volume and no change to the volume settings according to alsamixer. > If you can still change the volume via a mixer app, it sounds like the > problem is with the buttons providing the right inputs. That may > require changing the keyboard settings or something like that. And some > laptops handle those buttons specially, through ACPI or other BIOS > hacks, and therefore need special kernel drivers (!)
There were some issues in that regard, the volume up button only sometimes works, so I remapped them in KDE. I didn't mention that because it just complicates the description. But the volume down button always works at the Linux level so the inability to lower the volume is definitely a KDE issue. > > Is there another desktop environment that has a more minimalist design > > without being like TWM? I want something that has notifications for USB > > devices, battery, network manager, etc but not too much else in the way > > of trying to take over everything and not having a process like > > plasmashell taking 10% of a CPU core when nothing is happening. > I like XFCE, which like Cinnamon and Mate is inspired by earlier > versions of Gnome, but I've also used LXDE which is even more minimal. > And we had a great presentation on i3wm at the last LUV workshop. Thanks, I'll check them out. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
