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I am unable to get the forward and backward keys, volume keys working, nor the play pause keys. I am using lubuntu 14.04 LTS

Eric Carvalho
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  • Maybe this link helps:http://askubuntu.com/questions/461093/volume-buttons-not-working-in-14-04?rq=1 – Muzaffar Dec 21 '14 at 02:19
  • @muzaffarhabibullayev That didn't work for me. –  Dec 21 '14 at 02:35
  • Have you tried to make shortcut to the play button? – Muzaffar Dec 21 '14 at 02:38
  • How would I go about in doing so? –  Dec 21 '14 at 02:43
  • Well, unfortunately I couldn't find out if there is an inbuilt option for making shortcut in LXDE, you will have to edit shortcut manually. http://askubuntu.com/questions/140307/lubuntu-keyboard-shortcut-for-menu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2162718 – Muzaffar Dec 21 '14 at 02:58
  • If you don't want to mess around with these tweaks install gnome environment via Software center.It is easier to create shortcuts there. – Muzaffar Dec 21 '14 at 03:00
  • Sadly i am unable to find the gnome environment. And also the xbindkeys just crashes everytime I try to get it to find the key i am pressing. –  Dec 21 '14 at 04:07

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Possible solutions:

  1. Try another music player (for example, audacious, banshee,etc) (sudo apt-get install audaciuos or sudo apt-get install banshee)

  2. Try another desktop environment (gnome, xfce) (sudo apt-get install gnome or sudo apt-get install xfce) Xfce would be a better option if your machine is rather weak (less than 4 gb RAM)

In XFCE go to Settings Manager > Keyboard Preferences > Shortcuts.

Also your keyboard button may not not be supported yet. Then you will have to wait for updates.

Muzaffar
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  • I tried out audacious, and it didnt solve the issue, and i have been using banshee already.

  • As for trying out a new desktop environment, i ran xubuntu in a virtualbox, and still my media and volume keys did not work.

    • I was able to get them to work in linux mint though, so I shall be using that instead.

    –  Dec 21 '14 at 07:01