KOSD

KOSD is a simple KDE application that runs in the background and responds to button presses by showing a little OSD. It delegates the job of changing the volume to KMix.

Currently following actions are supported:
- Raise volume
- Lower volume
- Mute/Unmute volume
- Show volume
- Show brightness
- Show battery charge

More actions will be added in future releases.

How to install:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` .
make
make install (as root)

Run 'kosd' to start. You might want to run 'kosd --configure' the first time to assign actions to your media keys and tweak KOSD to your liking.

Comments, critic, suggestions, donations, etc. are highly welcome. Have fun!

Changelog from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2
* Improved OSD rendering (should hopefully work with all plasma themes now, including KDE 4.3's Air)
* Automatically switch to fake transparency if compositing is disabled
* Fixed a typo in the mixer class
* Better battery handling
* Fixed CMakeLists.txt to allow compiling in a build directory

Changelog from 0.4 to 0.4.1
* Exposed actions via D-Bus
* Added "showCustom" action (D-Bus only)
* Make sure the volume step can't be smaller than what is supported by the sound card

Changelog from 0.2.3 to 0.4
* Ported to KDE 4

Changelog from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
* Fixed a bug in Xinerama handling
* Added an option to select the screen to place the OSD on

Changelog from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
* Fixed misbehavior and/or crash when run before KMix has been started

Changelog from 0.2 to 0.2.1
* Added mixer channel selection
* Some code cleaning

Changelog from 0.1.3 to 0.2
* Added icon theme support
* Added mixer device selection
* Added volume step option
* Added separate icons for Up/Down actions
* Some code improvements

Changelog from 0.1.2 to 0.1.3
* Fixed a regression that caused the font on the value bar not to scale
* Added some new actions and DCOP functions