how to get Hp Mutimedia Keyboard buttons to work

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Hi I just installed openSuse 11.1(new to openSuse)I was wondering how I might be able to get the multimedia buttons to work on my HP Keyboard p/n5187-0341. Other distributions that i tried such as Mandriva 2009,Kubuntu, and Sabayon all work. When I press the volume key a small window pops up and show that i’m adjusting the volume. If i can get the keyboard working that would make me very happy

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Have you tried the settings under Configure Desktop - Keyboard and Mouse - Global Keyboard Shortcuts?

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Multimedia keys are too nasty to get it work with simple configuration.
News from Planet OS-88: Laptop extra keys - HOWTO.

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Thats a neat blog link.

I’m tempted to add it to the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide, as either a reference, or a step at the end with a link to it (or a similar page). (such as a “step-11” to that guide): SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

The problem is blogs come and go, and the link (and information) could disappear, or simply not be maintained.

Hence I’m thinking maybe (preferably with the blog author’s permissions) we should transfer that information to an openSUSE wiki page, and then reference the wiki page. That way we have a bit more control over the information provided. Yes a duplication, but only as long as the original blog content remains.

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I added a temporary link to the blog in the troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - configuring a laptops multimedia keys
… but ultimately, I believe that needs to be migrated to a short and sweet wki (assuming such a wiki does not already exist and maybe I missed it).

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The best thus far I could find is this wiki Keytouch - openSUSE which does not provide as much guidance.

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At the moment I’m very busy around my university. I’ll start to migrate it tomorrow.

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Thank You verry much that was helpfull I’ve downloaded and Installed Keytouch. I have one question I downloaded a plugin for it and being that im knew to linux im not sure how to install it.Anny Sudgestions?

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you need to tell folks the form of the file or plugin that you downloaded; maybe copy and paste the full file name

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the file is called Kmix.tar.gz

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The wiki page is ready, take a look to it: Keytouch - openSUSE.
Hope that helps.

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Thanks guys, I was looking for this exact piece of software after I played with it in kubuntu. I’d forgotten the name, so this helped me enormously :smiley:

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Great!
Glad to hear that helped!

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Hi,

I’m using an hp multimedia keyboard and it works with vlc. You just have to substitute or replace the default keyboard vlc shortcut with the multimedia keyboard in the vlc preferences.