Best solution for no media keys?

[JohnehJH]

So I just got my new Filco tenkeyless, and I love it. Thanks everyone for the advice and such. Only had two qualms with it:

• USB cord is a little short.
• I forgot I use my media keys quite often.

The only thing I really used was the volume up, down, and mute. Out of curiosity how have you folks dealt with the media keylessness of mechanical boards?

[alaricljs]

Autohotkey is a good choice... Win-plus and Win-minus for vol, Win-0 for mute.. or anything you can think of.

[NimbleRabit]

Autohotkey is a good choice... Win-plus and Win-minus for vol, Win-0 for mute.. or anything you can think of.

I'll second this.  You can choose exactly what keys you want to use and get all of your functionality back.  I personally like this script for volume control, I appreciate having a simple little display:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic49219.html

[Fwiffo]

Alternatively, you can use an operating system that actually lets you configure keyboard shortcuts for things. But I use Autohotkey when I'm in Windows.

[Culinia]

I personally use the application button for volume down and right-ctrl for volume up. Mute = hold application key down.

[JohnehJH]

Thanks for the help. I set mine to Insert, Home, and Page up as mute, vol down, and vol up respectively. Only because I don't use those keys and I didn't want to have to hit ctrl, shift, or win key.

[DrunkenDonut]

For those of you in OS X and want to add hot keys (more than the built-in functionality gives you), give Spark a try. (http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php). It'll do the usual system volume, iTunes control, etc. It can also run scripts, open apps, activate menu items too.

Spark and Autohotkey are definitely must-haves.

[clack]

i use winamp and i just bind rctrl + arrow key for various playback functions. rctrl + left arrow for prev track, down for play/pause, right for next track, up for playlist

[theferenc]

Autohotkey should do it in windows, and kde at least has an equivalent tool built in (for this level of stuff, anyway). And I think there is a linux version of autohotkey, but I forget what the developer called it.

Or you can use xmodmap, depending on how your linux system was set up -- X has support for volume control, but your mixer has to support it. Isn't sound in linux fun?

[The Solutor]

Caming from the Sidewinder X6 (i bought it also because the handy volume rocker) I was very worried about the lack of a nice volume control on my keyboard.

I searched a bit and the only straightforward solution is the expensive (and, seem, not well supported in windows) Powermate.

So I've decided to buy a cheap keyboard provided with this control and dismantle it keeping just the knob.

But then I found Volmouse, is very handy and widely configurable to meet every needs, and using the scroll wheel as volume knob is better than any key combinations.


I also use a sw to have an on screen volume display, there are a lot of them starting from the sidewinder SW to 3rvx to "sound volume hotkeys"