Using volume wheel

I have a volume wheel on my laptop and an trying to configure the system to use it to change the volume. I use ratpoison as a GUI, does anyone know how to bind the volume wheel?

Why can't you use xev in ratpoison?
Anyways, I messed up in my previous post, the configuration should be:
definekey top XF86AudioLowerVolume exec amixer -q set Master 1- unmute
definekey top XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec amixer -q set Master 1+ unmute
See the wiki if this still doesn't work: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys.
Last edited by Stebalien (2010-10-18 21:32:22)

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Last edited by Kebertx (2012-09-10 15:21:47)

MrCode you were spot on! Tested it out in xev, and sure enough:
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
root 0x14d, subw 0x0, time 496782, (165,-12), root:(759,307),
state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
root 0x14d, subw 0x0, time 496785, (165,-12), root:(759,307),
state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
root 0x14d, subw 0x0, time 497086, (165,-12), root:(759,307),
state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
root 0x14d, subw 0x0, time 497090, (165,-12), root:(759,307),
state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
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