Bug#421164: gnome-control-center: Gnome settings daemon messes up multimedia keys configuration

Samuel Joyce samjoc at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 20:47:40 UTC 2007


Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.18.1-1
Severity: important

Firstly, apologies for the mess that the submission of this report has
made.

Upgraded to the latest Gnome Control Center today and found that the
multimedia keys on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9300) were not behaving as
they were set up to do. While my personal xmodmap file is loaded
properly on Gnome startup, the behaviour of the keys are quite
arbitrary. While on occasion, xev shows that they have been mapped
properly, only a few of them function:

For example, I have mapped the volume keys through Gconf to use "amixer
set PCM" etc., and the media keys to XF86AUDIO etc. If the media keys
work, the volume keys don't, or vice versa.

Also, sometimes xev shows no keycodes for any/all of the keys as
displayed below:

KeymapNotify event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  77  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

I can confirm that this behaviour only occurs in Gnome, or if using
another window manager, after Gnome Settings Daemon is started.

Cheers,
Sam.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





More information about the pkg-gnome-maintainers mailing list