ThinkPad OSD
New desktop environments (GNOME, KDE, and maybe even Xfce) support their own osd notifications for important events (volume up/down/mute and brightness up/down), which might be enough for most users. In order to use those notifications instead of the ones provided by TPB, map the keyboard-events of those keys to the proper keycodes.
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Loading nvram at boot and give permission to access /dev/nvram
- Check with lsmod if the nvram module is loaded on boot
- If not, add
nvram
toMODULES=(... nvram)
in/etc/rc.conf
- Check /dev/nvram permissions, your user must have read access to it.
- Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-arch.rules (WARNING: It will be overwritten with new udev update!)
KERNEL=="nvram", NAME="misc/%k", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="kmem", MODE="0660"
- Note: this line seems to work better for some users:
KERNEL=="nvram", GROUP="kmem", MODE="0660"
Setting a more readable color and better placement
/etc/tpbrc
OSDCOLOR Green OSDVERTICAL 0 OSDHORIZONTAL 0 OSDPOS MIDDLE OSDALIGN CENTER
Starting with KDE
~/.kde/Autostart/tpb-startup.sh
# Start Thinkpad OSD daemon if [ -x /usr/bin/tpb ] && [ -w /dev/nvram ] && [ -r /dev/nvram ]; then /usr/bin/tpb -d fi
Starting with Fluxbox
~/.fluxbox/startup
# Start Thinkpad OSD daemon if [ -x /usr/bin/tpb ] && [ -w /dev/nvram ] && [ -r /dev/nvram ]; then /usr/bin/tpb -d fi
Play a sound on volume change
You can play a sound when using the volume buttons (mac like).
/etc/tpbrc
CALLBACK /usr/local/bin/callback_volume.sh
/usr/local/bin/callback_volume.sh
#!/bin/sh [ "$1" = "volume" ] && exec canberra-gtk-play --file=/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-volume-change.oga
Then:
# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/callback_volume.sh
Finally, restart tpb.