Re: Fluxbox doesn't recognize multimedia keys if gnome-settings-daemon is started [SOLVED]

Thomas Stein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 2005-09-02, 09:12 +0600 Станислав Якубенко wrote:
2005/9/1, Thomas Stein <[email protected]>:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I'm using Fluxbox 0.9.12 with Mandrivalinux 2005 LE here. I login via
> > XDM.
> > 
> > Although I let xmodmap read my settings in .xsession, the multimedia
> > keys on my keyboard don't work until I run "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" manually
> > after login. If I remove the line with gnome-settings-daemon in
> > ~/.fluxbox/startup, the keys do work fine without a manual call of
> > xmodmap.
> > 
> I use fluxbox 0.9.13 on Slackware linux 10.0/
> 
> I also ligin via XDM.
> 
> I start my BOX via file located in /etc/X11/xinit (it's a symbolic
> link to file located in the same dir and called initrc.fluxbox). I
> wrote the folowing strings in this file.
> Here are they:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> quiv -zr ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/*.jpg &
> sleep 0.5
> idesk &
> exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
> 
> 
> may be you can put startup lines here
> 
> I dont know how it works in Mandriva.
> May be my answer will help you to find out the answer.

I tried /etc/X11/xinit as well as ~/.xinitrc, neither did work. But
thanks anyway, Stanislav. Meanwhile I could solve my problem by putting
the line

	/usr/bin/acme > /dev/null 2>&1 &

into ~/.fluxbox/startup. ACME is a small tool from GNOME for using the
multimedia keys with linux.

Regards

Thomas Stein
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