Getting the Mute and Volume Buttons Working in Openbox

Here’s the easiest way I’ve found to get the mute and volume buttons to work in Openbox.  I found this in a thread on the Arch forums.

Simply add this code to the ~/.config/Openbox/rc.xml file.  If you look through the file, you’ll see a section with other keybindings and you can just add this to the end of that section.

Make sure you have alsamixer installed.  In Arch, that’s part of the alsa-utils package.

<!– Keybindings for volume control –>
<keybind key=”XF86AudioRaiseVolume”>
<action name=”Execute”>
<execute>amixer sset Master 1+</execute>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key=”XF86AudioLowerVolume”>
<action name=”Execute”>
<execute>amixer sset Master 1-</execute>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key=”XF86AudioMute”>
<action name=”Execute”>
<execute>amixer sset Master toggle</execute>
</action>
</keybind>