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Bug 688608 - Allow Volume and Mute keys to work while the screen is locked
Allow Volume and Mute keys to work while the screen is locked
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 422390
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Screen
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-19 00:54 UTC by Asif Ali Rizvan
Modified: 2012-11-19 03:04 UTC
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Description Asif Ali Rizvan 2012-11-19 00:54:44 UTC 
I play music files, and after 10 minutes, the screen locks, when suddenly, I need to mute the sound or reduce the volume to talk to someone or on phone; The keyboard volume and mute keys are not functioning while the screen is locked.

It would be very useful to have 'multimedia' keys, especially, vol+, vol-, mute, play, pause, next, back keys to be working when the screen is locked for a seamless gnome experience.

thanks.
Comment 1 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2012-11-19 03:04:52 UTC 
hi,

Thanks for the report.  I agree that this is a fairly annoying issue.

This is something we have been discussing for a long time.  Fortunately it looks like a solution may be coming soon(ish?).  Recently gnome-shell took over screen locking duties and there is talk about moving the grabs for the media keys there (from its current location in gnome-settings-daemon) precisely so that this will work.

Please follow the other bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 422390 ***