Bug#381877: gnome-keybindings-manager: multimedia keys should be
bound by default
Steinar H. Gunderson
sesse at debian.org
Mon Aug 7 15:22:29 UTC 2006
Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.14.2-2
Severity: normal
With a sensible keyboard setup (which isn't always there by default yet,
but hopefully it's coming :-) ) the average user has a lot of multimedia
keys that can do wonderful and strange things.
However, GNOME ignores these keys by default (except "Stand by" and
"Hibernate", which gnome-power-manager catches and does sensible things
with); IMO this default should be changed to assume that the right
mappings are already in place. The worst thing that could possibly
happen is that the keysyms are simply never sent (or that something is
set up really wrong and "XF86Calculator" or something is set when the
user presses the mute button), and that would be a bug in an earlier
layer (which should be fixed there, of course).
The most relevant keys are probably:
Launch music player XF86AudioMedia
Mute XF86AudioMute
Volume down XF86AudioLowerVolume
Volume up XF86AudioRaiseVolume
Play XF86AudioPlay
Pause XF86AudioPause
Stop XF86AudioStop
Previous track XF86AudioPrev
Next track XF86AudioNext
Eject XF86Eject
There are several others that could also map nicely to GNOME keybindings;
see /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii capplets-data 1:2.14.2-2 configuration applets for GNOME 2
ii desktop-file-utils 0.11-1 Utilities for .desktop files
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.14.2-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gnome-menus 2.14.0-7 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.12-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.12-1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.12-1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-3 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.0-5 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libebook1.2-5 1.6.2-3 Client library for evolution addre
ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-3 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.14.2-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-menu2 2.14.0-7 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii libgnome-window-settings1 1:2.14.2-2 Utility library for getting window
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.2-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.4.1-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error values an
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0 0.10.9-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.9-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-6 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmetacity0 1:2.14.5-1 library of lightweight GTK2 based
ii libnautilus-extension1 2.14.3-1 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-2 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libtasn1-3 0.3.5-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxklavier10 2.2-3 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.6.26.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.0-4 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii evolution-data-server 1.6.2-3 evolution database backend server
ii gnome-session 2.14.2-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
pn gnome2-user-guide <none> (no description available)
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