This workaround does the trick, but is unfortunately not the prettiest. The keys on the Thinkpads are controlling the hardware mixer (as Henrique & the others explained above) and with the old hotkey-setup, your volume buttons will control the hardware mixer and the software mixer together. The suggested approach was to find a polling based solution, which is possible (at least for the volume) using a couple files in the /proc filesystem, that store the hardware mixer levels. I'll try hacking up a script for watching these values and sending a notification whenever they change (this way you don't have to control both mixers, and can have the functionality without the bloody hacks).
-- No notification when sliding audio volume, muting volume, sliding LCD brightness on X31, X32, T60, R50e, T42, R52 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357673 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
