#1 2015-10-31 07:54:37

ghorvath

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Registered: 2015-10-01

Posts: 161

Laptop tricks for mute and wlan buttons

These are not my ideas, I found them in several places, just thought I would put them here if people are searching for these keywords.

If the "mute" button does not work as intended (this can be partly a pulseaudio issue, I am sure that other people can describe it really well.), just paste this into your rc.xml file:

    <keybind key="XF86AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>amixer -D pulse set Master toggle</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Further, for me the wlan button did not work at all, so I made a script /usr/local/bin/wlan with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
WLAN_status=$(nmcli -t -f WIFI r)
case $1 in
  on)
    nmcli r wifi on
    ;;
  off)
    nmcli r wifi off
    ;;
  toggle)
    if [ $WLAN_status = "letiltva" ] ; then
      nmcli r wifi on
    else
      nmcli r wifi off
    fi
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {on|off|toggle}"
    if [ $WLAN_status = "letiltva" ] ; then
      echo 'Current status: off'
    else
      echo "Current status: on"
    fi
    ;;
esac

Here, the word 'letiltva' in the wlan script is in Hungarian, it means disabled. I am not entirely sure what word is used with English locale debian (or with any other locale), but you can check by running

nmcli r wifi off
nmcli -t -f WIFI r

Then I made /usr/local/bin/wlan executable

sudo chmod ugo+x /usr/local/bin/wlan

and added the following to rc.xml:

    <keybind key="XF86WLAN">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>wlan toggle</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

A logout and/or reboot might be needed. You should not need sudo rights to run this script.