pommed enables the use of the brightness and volume keys on Apple laptops including the MacBook and MacBook Pro (the only Apple laptops that Slackware currently runs on) and is likely of little or not use to others. pommed requires libsmbios and libconfuse, both of which can be found at SlackBuilds.org. This package installs an rc.pommed script that should be called from rc.local (and optionally rc.local_shutdown) like so: In rc.local: # Start pommed if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pommed ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.pommed start fi In rc.local_shutdown: # Stop pommed if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pommed ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.pommed stop fi It is also necessary to restart dbus after installing this package, either by a reboot or a quick restart of just the service: /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus restart