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Media button driver for Dell E1505 for Amarok

Asked by Alyssia

I am using Amarok 1.4.7 and I need a driver to make the media buttons on my Dell E1505 work with this program. They worked with Rhythmbox. The volume buttons work but the play, next etc do not.

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) said : 		#1

Usually this should work right away. Though maybe there is some problem in case you're using GNOME.

You can set the shortcuts manually: Settings -> Configure Global Shortcuts... -> select the action you want to change -> click the "key button" -> now press the actual key which should be used, hopefully you get something "XF86AudioNext" -> click OK and voilà the key should work.

If it does not show _any_ key name when you're trying to set one: indicates that somehow Amarok (or rather the KDELibs) don't recognize that you pressed the button and we have to find a better solution.

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DeadPanDan (striatedpattern) said : 		#2

I just found the solution to this. The global shortcuts should be configured as you described in Amarok, but then you must go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts in your application menu and clear out the settings for Play/Pause, Stop, Skip, etc... Once those are disabled the media buttons work in Amarok.

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