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Is it possible to make it enable that when I press mute button on my laptop it'll work even if screen is locked.
Gnome 3.6 can do that and, from what I can find, it's not implemented in Unity.
If you need that feature, upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 and use Gnome 3 as your desktop manager.