OK... huh.
I do not have a laptop or use KMILO. I don't really understand what it's for but - if you get regular keyboard events via xev you should be able to see what key is mapped when you press the special laptop volume buttons.
To that end, what if you just configure it this way - inside TDE using the global shortcuts?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026, at 5:29 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-devels wrote:
Anno domini 2026 Wed, 10 Jun 23:03:48 +0200
deloptes via tde-devels scripsit:
> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-devels wrote:
>
> > fgrep did not find anything related to kmix in ~/.trinity , /root/.tinity,
> > /etc/trinity or /opt/trinity/etc. I did not find any global hotkeys
> > relatated to volume control in tcontrol (which is no big surprise - I
> > never changed these). Maybe I'm missing something, but where could should
> > I look?
>
> I just compiled and ran tmix. I have the same issue as you. I checked
> everywhere and there are no global settings for the vol up/down keys. I
> also removed kmilo-trinity completely and it did not change anything.
> I will reboot now and check again. May be it is cached somewhere. BRB
>
I did some deeper digging. In the code kmilo is hardcoded to "kmix" and some very specific dcop magic involving stuff like kmix-mainwindow-something. Replacing "kmix" with "tmix" inside the code does at least start "tmix" kmilo when pressing VOLUME* the first time - but the dcop stuff naturally does not work and needs more attention.
Nik
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