[ltp] Mute button toggle

[James Knott]

Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>Ignacio Fernández Galván wrote:
>>>My R51 has a mute volume button. When I press it, the sound is muted.
>>>But  it does not toggle, to "unmute" the volume I have to press vol+ or
>>>vol-.  Is it possible to change this behaviour and make the mute button
>>>toggle?  Maybe with an acpi script?
>>As I recall, my R31 does the same.  However, there's one advantage to
>>this way.  If sound is turned off, and you go to turn it on and don't
>>hear anything, does that mean there's no sound or perhaps the volume is
>>turned down or ...?  By using the volume buttons to restore the sound,
>>you know you're not accidentally turning the sound off.
> 
> OTOH, there's no way to make sure it's not muted except by (maybe) changing 
> the level.
> 

Wasn't that my point?  If you just pressed the mute button, you're not
sure if you're muting or not.