Mebster Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 (edited) It's so useful using the volume controls (up, down & mute) with a mac keyboard on a mac and was hoping to do the same on my hackintosh with my pc keyboard (which does not have volume controls!!!). I've searched on the forum and googled it and got nothing. I've got 3 keys on the far right of my pc keyboard (that I don't think I have any use for in OS X). They are 1. Print screen, 2. Scroll Lock and 3. Pause/Break. Can I make these Vol +, Vol - and Mute? Edited January 2, 2007 by AcePlayer Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueman2 Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Well, the volume and mute controls work fine on my PC. It is a Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard Ver 1.1. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-266486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 (edited) I think he means that his keyboard does not have volume controls like yours and mine and wants to make the unused keys the control keys, sorry m8, but i dont know of a way =\ Edited January 4, 2007 by PRocker267 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-266499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadaz Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Hi I use a freeware called Proxi made by griffin. It let you configure almost what you want including sound (with image on the screen...) you can find it on macupdate, versiontracker..... Hope this can help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-267161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 Hi I use a freeware called Proxi made by griffin. It let you configure almost what you want including sound (with image on the screen...) you can find it on macupdate, versiontracker..... Hope this can help. That's brilliant. Thanks for the suggestion. Will report back if it works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-267274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 Ok I'm reporting back months later I know but I couldn't get Proxi to work. I'm not sure if it's because I wasn't just able to set it up or if the program just doesn't do what i need it to do. So doesn't anyone have any other suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-312241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsod Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 mine has + and - for system volume, but if you are using iTunes you can assign keys to iTunes only volume using SizzlingKeys and i think you can get it to give you the system volume for a 5 dollar shareware fee. hope that helps -bsod Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-312316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Well I had the same thoughts as you and I just bit the bullet and bought a mac keyboard, hell its smaller then my big clunky logitech keyboard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-318859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neonkoala Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Ukelele is supposed to allow keyboard layout reconfigging. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-319440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 7, 2007 Author Share Posted April 7, 2007 Anyone got any other suggestions that they have maybe managed to make work for them? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-341704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmar01 Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 Buy a keyboard with with volume controls on them ??? A basic USB MS keyboard doesn't cost that much. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-341833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazWiLLiE Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 Controllermate. Shareware ($15), but it worked so great that i bought it. Now I have all my multimedia keys functioning. (play, stop, next, prev, vol+, vol-, mute, mail, media etc.) So I think that you could easily setup your Print screen, Scroll Lock and Pause/Break to do whatever you want. btw, I use applescript to do the action on my keys. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-341835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 7, 2007 Author Share Posted April 7, 2007 Buy a keyboard with with volume controls on them ??? A basic USB MS keyboard doesn't cost that much. Back when I wrote this I didn't know normal volume controls on keyboards worked. I'm going to buy a wireless keyboard with vol controls but until then I just wanted to see if anything can be done. Also I love my current keyboard. Have become so used to it. Don't really want to any anything else Controllermate. Shareware ($15), but it worked so great that i bought it. Now I have all my multimedia keys functioning. (play, stop, next, prev, vol+, vol-, mute, mail, media etc.) Thanks a lot mate. I'll look into this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37411-volume-controls-on-pc-keyboard/#findComment-341957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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