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I am having trouble enabling my media keys on my keyboard. Running Ubuntu 18.10 an I am using a Razor Huntsman elite keyboard which has the pause/play, skip, previous, mute buttons and a dial for the volume.

Jackspace
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christoff do bernord
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  • Have you installed any drivers specific to your keyboard?

    There have been some issues with this keyboard: https://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/the-razer-huntsman-elite-keyboard-and-linux-a-major-disappointment/

     – Jackspace Jan 09 '19 at 01:07
  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. I have found specific programs work perfectly with media keys, but others need configuration. It may be helpful if you provide the programs you are running. – guiverc Jan 09 '19 at 01:08
  • Sadly I only became aware of the issue with compatibility with my key board and Ubuntu after I got and set up my keyboard. Also I have not yet seen anything yet referring on using a dial or knob for volume control. If there is though then I would be grateful if you or someone else could post a link or share it. – christoff do bernord Jan 09 '19 at 01:39

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Gnome is abstracting the low level media key press events away from individual programs, and using dbus instead. There is quite a bit of workaround to get the "old way" back.

BUT, There is a bug in gnome-settings-daemon that was corrected in version 3.32.1. Ubuntu 19+ pulls in the fixed version, so anyone running 18 or below is affected, unless they patch GSD.

See my answer here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1241511/619638 There are also instructions for patching and compiling GSD.

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