Hi thanks for this detailed answer
For the time being (till R14.1.0 is out -
possibly end of
2020) you have the following choices:
1) you can mute/unmute from the KMix slider LED, this should
work fine with PA already
This works but it is inconvenient since you have to fiddle with
controls
2) you can open KMix mixer windod -> Settings
-> Configure
global shortcuts and remap the "toggle mute" keyboard
shortcut to some other key combination. Do not use
"XF86AudioMute" key, since this is normally used by KMilo and
therefore may not work
Thanks for this but: it does *not work*.
I just bound it to Win+F1 for testing:
this «Toogle mute» only switches the
master but not the speaker, so it does the same as does Fn-F1
3) you can create a script that calls "dcop
kmix Mixer-1
toggleMasterMute", this will mute/unmute the PA master
channel. You can add an input action tied to a keyboard
shortcut to call this easy.
The script works, nicely
4) if you are on debian-like distro, you could
switch to
Slavek's PTB packages and get the latest R14.1.0-dev packages
at regular intervals. This will bring you the complete fix in
a few days
does that mean Ubuntu included?
Would you mind telling me the ppa?
Thanks again
Uwe
PS I signed this message, since you did the same, some people do
complain, though
Thats because the key issuer is some sort of all caps, 3 line
swahili we never heard of before. All of a sudden we're getting
popups from pientry-gnome3 asking us to swear that this key signer
is legit. How theheck are wwe to know?
And it doesn't copy-paste, blocks all other input while its present
on screen. Being the paranoid old fart I am, I am not about to
click ok on such a mystery message. click on close or cancel changes
the main, yellow kmail warning to click this for details, I click
and it then says no details available. Is there a switch to shut
this stuff off?