# A04 volume keys don't seem to work
**URL:** https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/a04-volume-keys-dont-seem-to-work/7810
**Category:** DevTerm
**Created:** [January 5, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/a04-volume-keys-dont-seem-to-work/7810 "2022-01-05T07:07:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@poulsbo](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/poulsbo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/a04-volume-keys-dont-seem-to-work/7810/1 "2022-01-05T07:07:29Z")
There is a volume up/down key on the keyboard, and it doesn’t seem to do anything. Tried shift/ctrl/fn/cmd modifiers; nothing.
Anyone have this key working?
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### Author:  [@BlayTation](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/BlayTation)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2022, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/a04-volume-keys-dont-seem-to-work/7810/2 "2022-01-05T08:08:14Z")
Don’t work for me either. They don’t seem to be aliased to anything in the system. I don’t know how the others are (perhaps through the DE) but simply configuring them into ~/.xbindkeysrc will work systemwide. There are many guides on how to do this, and I am suprised it doesn’t work out-of-box.
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### Author:  [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/a04-volume-keys-dont-seem-to-work/7810/3 "2022-01-05T10:18:58Z")
this is a desktop issue
```auto
sudo apt remove pasystray
sudo apt install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
sudo reboot
```
then right click the top panel → add New Items to add **xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin** into to the top panel ,when you see a bigger horn icon
the volume up/down key will work
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### Author:  [@ksbex](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/ksbex)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/a04-volume-keys-dont-seem-to-work/7810/4 "2022-01-05T14:37:23Z")
Thanks this is great. I did the keyboard firmware update and this change this morning and it’s really becoming a nice little system.