Anno domini 2026 Wed, 10 Jun 20:03:50 -0400 Calvin Morrison via tde-devels scripsit:
I need to learn more about kmilo. Is . I think mostly the way these are supposed to work is via the fancy XF86 keys these days - but the OSD seems to be the stickler.
XF86AudioRaiseVolume XF86AudioLowerVolume XF86AudioMute XF86MonBrightnessUp XF86MonBrightnessDown
Regarding that kmilo provides an OSD that is very nice, and i see they do it for brightness as well. However, should such things be centralized? i do not know. I dont have a good view on it. It seems nice that they would all act the same, brightness, volume, etc. Perhaps that should be more pluggable or maybe if we decide to drop kmixer as default we make kmilo focus on tmix.
kmilo handles these events. The problem is that it is not exactly modular and the DCOP architectre comes from a time when IPC was considerd not to be "cool" and everybody jumped on stuff like CORBA and built a different implementation of the very same idea. To make things worse AMD platforms now implement a different brightness setting API than intel, resulting in the odd problem that all brighness keys make the display darker but none to mke it brighter (note that this applies to all DEs, not only TDE). It's esy to fix using ACPI and a shell program, but that would requite to get rigd of kmilo all together - not the worst thing, if you ask me.
It seems a lot to ask to add DCOP, then get tmix to listen to it etc, all just so a global hotkey which already works - works within kmilo.
I need outside help on this
I would need it, too :)
Nik
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026, at 7:45 PM, deloptes via tde-devels wrote:
Calvin Morrison via tde-devels wrote:
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.
I also do not have laptop, but my keyboard has multimedia keys. So after reboot without kmilo, the OSD is not working and if I remember correctly this is the reason to install kmilo back then.
To that end, what if you just configure it this way - inside TDE using the global shortcuts?
IMO we should either update kmilo or add the osd functionality to tmix.
Let me know about the debian directory, as I saw you have built a package. I would like to install the package with the icons.
BR
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