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    Aspire 5630 Media Buttons - how to remap?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by markhaldane, Apr 19, 2007.

  1. markhaldane

    markhaldane Newbie

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    Hi guys,

    I have an Acer Aspire 5630WLMi and on the right hand side of the keyboard there are some "media buttons" which are volume+, volume-, play/pause, stop, forward (FF) and back (FB).

    Currently these buttons control windows media player. When im listening to music and want to skip forward a track I just hit FF and it does so.

    What I want to do is remap these buttons so that they control a different program (Winamp preferably) but I can't figure out how to do this?

    I've found Acer Launch Manager which controls what programs the email/web/P buttons on the keyboard do, but it doesn't let me change what the media buttons do... anyone know how to remap these?

    Thanks in advance!
    - Mark
     
    markhaldane, Apr 19, 2007
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  2. vestige

    vestige Notebook Consultant

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    Go into Winamp Preferences and find the Global Hotkeys on the left-hand pane. You can remap them there.
     
    vestige, Apr 19, 2007
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  3. SSX4life

    SSX4life Notebook Deity

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    vestige is correct on this one.
     
    SSX4life, Apr 19, 2007
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  4. markhaldane

    markhaldane Newbie

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    Ok so i've ticked to enable global hotkeys, but I can't see any hotkeys for my keyboard buttons, just hotkeys such as CTRL+ALT+F... There are some that just say "Stop" or "Previous Track" as the hotkey though, is this them? My acer keyboard media buttons are still controling windows media player...

    I thought maybe I need to disable the same thing in WMP but I can't find a similar option!?
     
    markhaldane, Apr 19, 2007
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  5. markhaldane

    markhaldane Newbie

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    Anyone know what i'm doing wrong or missing here?
     
    markhaldane, Apr 20, 2007
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    vestige Notebook Consultant

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    "Stop" or "Previous Track" are the ones.

    I believe you should close media player and open winamp.

    This is what I do:
    1) Enable Winamp Agent
    2) Open winamp
    3) Use hotkeys
     
    vestige, Apr 20, 2007
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