Bug#381877: gnome-keybindings-manager: multimedia keys should be bound by default

[Sven Arvidsson]

> 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).

Hi,

If my understanding of this upstream bug [0] is correct, this should
work now, but you need to select your keyboard model first.

0. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328032

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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