Volume Control - Where Is It?

[cgrymala]

I'm sure this is going to seem like a really simple question, but I just haven't been able to figure it out.

How do you control the volume within Boxee? I haven't found any icons that appear to be related to volume control while listening to music.

Also - does Boxee have any kind of support for keyboard hotkeys that control volume? If not, is it possible that that might be added at some point?

[coco]

I had this problem too. The default volume keyboard controls (plus, minus) don't seem to work after install. In order to fix the problem I edited
~/.boxee/UserData/Keymap.xml
and mapped the VolumeUp and VolumeDown key configurations to F11, F10 (to coincide with mythtv) here

<global>
<keyboard>
<f11>VolumeUp</f11>
<f10>VolumeDown</f10>

and here

<FullscreenVideo>
<keyboard>
<f11>VolumeUp</f11>
<f10>VolumeDown</f10>

hope that helps

[cgrymala]

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a shot and let you know how it goes.

Again, I was kind of expecting to see a menu or something on screen to adjust the volume, so the keyboard shortcuts didn't really even occur to me.

I have edited the keymap file to use the multimedia keys on my keyboard. I'll have to see if that works or not.

[marcel]

guys ..thanks for the report have opened a bug on this issue..

[cgrymala]

I couldn't get the multimedia keys on my keyboard to work. I'm not sure if I used the wrong codes, or if multimedia keys are not yet supported.

I'll try to use a different, standard key on my keyboard and post a report once I've tested it.

[marcel]

@ cgrymala please update if it worked..thanks coco

[cgrymala]

Greetings!
Changing the following lines:

<minus>VolumeDown</minus>
<plus>VolumeUp</plus>
to:

<f11>VolumeDown</f11>
<f12>VolumeUp</f12>

seems to have worked.

I also tried changing the "minus" to "hyphen", but that did nothing.

I also tried changing "minus" to "-" and "plus" to "+". However, that caused Boxee not to start at all (my screen flashed black for a split second, then nothing happened). Incidentally, that's the same thing that happened when I tried to set my multimedia keys (for which I used the codes like 02xa or whatever).

[marcel]

cool will look into this issue..cheers:)

[Philb]

Hi,

I'm New to Boxee.
I have tried editing the Keymap.xml file but Boxee still doesn't recognize the VoluneUp & VolumeDown keys.

Has anyone tried this on Ubuntu 8.04 ?

Cheers

Phil Bevan