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Blackstareye / toggleAudio-blackeyeprojects.de

Gnome Extension for toggling audio
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Use grave as a hotkey #10

Closed Scridgeon closed 3 months ago

Scridgeon commented 3 months ago

I have a customer script that I use to toggle the audio output device. I want to replace my script with your extension. I currently use ( + ` ) as the hotkey combination but I am unable to get the grave key to work.

I've tried ['grave'] and ['`'] but neither of them toggle the audio change. I did confirm that the default hotkey combination does toggle the audio source.

How do I get my key combination to work? Or how can I invoke the toggle if I want to add it to a script?

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Blackstareye commented 3 months ago

Hey :) first of all thx for using my extension! :)

I will look into that and answer then. I had to try this out in my vm :)

How do I get my key combination to work? Or how can I invoke the toggle if I want to add it to a script?

I think that is not possible so far, regarding how gnome extensions work, but I might be wrong there

Blackstareye commented 3 months ago

Okay it's a bit more complicated but not much.

if you have a standard US layout it depends on:

You can check, what key works for you, if you go to the hotkey settings of your distribution, and try your combination on a command there. You see the displayed combination and how the key is called.

Moreover: Check if another program, action or (maybe your script?) uses and occupies the keys. Then my extension can't receive them.

I tried your combination with

"['<Ctrl><Super>dead_grave']"

command:

gsettings --schemadir $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/toggleAudio@blackeyeprojects.de/schemas set org.gnome.shell.extensions.toggle-audio toggle-headphone-key "['<Super>dead_grave']"

and

"['<Ctrl><Super>grave']" 
gsettings --schemadir $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/toggleAudio@blackeyeprojects.de/schemas set org.gnome.shell.extensions.toggle-audio toggle-headphone-key "['<Super>grave']"

and both worked for me, depending on which layout I use.

Hope that helps :)

PS: I would appreciate it if you let a review here review :)

Scridgeon commented 3 months ago

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I reviewed your gsettings string this was user error. I was passing "['grave']" to select-headphone-key instead of toggle-headphone-key. I used your command and everything is working great. I'll absolutely add a review; thanks again for the help.

Blackstareye commented 3 months ago

Glad it could be solved :D

You are welcome :> :)